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Re: [LUG] Moving Dropbox to another drive

 

Hi Guys

On 6 Oct 2014, at 10:40, Richard Brown <rich@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Hi Dan
> 
> On 6 Oct 2014, at 10:30, Daniel Robinson <manipula@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
>> Wouldn't it be better to mount the dropbox folder on your 1tb drive in /home.
>> To read something like /home/user/Dropbox_shared.
>> On 6 Oct 2014 10:03, "Richard Brown" <rich@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> Hi
>> 
>> On 5 Oct 2014, at 13:00, Brad Rogers <brad@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> 
>>> On Sun, 5 Oct 2014 09:09:53 +0100
>>> Richard Brown <rich@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Hello Richard,
>>> 
>>>> How can I move my user data from /home to /media/Movies/home? I have
>>>> tried to edit fstab and mount the Movies/home but it has an error
>>>> saying that it is not mountable.
>>> 
>>> I'm not sure whether you've already created /media/Movies/home, but
>>> unless the directory already exists trying to mount anything there
>>> will fail.
>>> 
>> 
>> Just to let you into the steps I'm taking.
>> 1. On the drive media/Movies I have created /home and also /Dropbox
>> 2. Editing fstab and putting the UUID, followed by media/Movies/home ext3 
>> defaults 0 2
>> 3. Save and exit and then run sudo mount -a
>> 4. Error message is mount: mount point media/Movies does not exist and mount 
>> point media/Movies/home does not exist.
>> 
>> Any ideas please?
>> 
>> Just another thought. I want Dropbox to basically use the 1TB drive. Would it be 
>> possible to put in a symlink and get Dropbox to use that way please?
> 
> 
> That is what I am trying to do but it keeps throwing up the error it does not 
> exist.
> 
> Thanks
> 

Just realised, do I need to mount a partition rather than a directory?

Thanks

Rich



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