Take one Dual-Boot laptop, with three partitions:
/dev/sda1:Windows File System
/dev/sda2:Linux File System
/dev/sda3:Data Partition
I already had Dropbox installed on the Windows side and didn’t want to have things duplicated on the linux side, problem is Ubuntu currently does not mount internal drives automatically on boot, so every time I fired up Ubuntu, I had to re-mount the drive, password and all.
Easy enough fix: Make a new /etc/fstab entry for the shared drive and define a mount point.
/dev/sda3 /media/Shared ntfs-3g defaults,locale=en_GB.UTF-8 0 0
Then change your Dropbox location to wherever you have the folder under /media/Shared/ (or as I do and just symbolically link it to under your Home folder, This is also a good idea because Windows defaults to calling the Dropbox folder “My Dropbox” whereas in *nix its simply “Dropbox”)
Last but not least
sudo umount /dev/sda3
sudo mount /media/Shared
dropbox start
Then just enjoy the 2.5Gb of hard disk you just saved.
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been trying to get this same arrangement going, but keep having Dropbox complain about denied permissions. is that something you ran into during your setup?
Cole, which side is complaining? Windows or Ubuntu? Is it trying to get root permissions? Short answer is that my memory sucks so if i didnt note it in the article, I didnt get prompted for anything
Hope the article helped, and when I get home I’ll check the logs on the machine that I set it up on, but its got to the stage now where I just ‘assume’ it works and dont even think about switching from U to Win;
Something I dont think I noted was that Ubuntu recognises Windows changes to the dropbox folder and viceversa and dropbox hasnt complained about it or anything else.
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