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Moving the Dropbox Folder on Ubuntu
I have been looking but not finding anything... can anyone point me in the right direction for moving the Dropbox folder? I have Ubuntu Server (no Gui) installed and the Dropbox folder (and the two ...
What are these intermediate mount point for (i.e. "~/CTest" and "~/ETest" in your examples)? They are meaningless. Only increases the load to some extent, nothing more. Are you sure the owning and access rights are set as needed on the other storages (i.e. to you)? I can't see a result from commands like:
ls -al /mnt/74bcf733-f29b-42db-bedd-1882056fb822/FTest ls -al /mnt/74bcf733-f29b-42db-bedd-1882056fb822/GTest
And to be sure what exactly gets mapped, check too:
ls -al ~/Dropbox/ETest ls -al ~/Dropbox/GTest
Here is the info you need plus a bit more.. hope some clue here. Intermediate mount points to show that nested bind mount works in certain cases and not others.
tim@hn:~$ ls -al /mnt/74bcf733-f29b-42db-bedd-1882056fb822/FTest total 12 drwxrwxr-x 2 tim tim 4096 Mar 12 01:24 . drwx------ 22 tim tim 4096 Mar 12 01:25 .. -rw-rw-r-- 1 tim tim 24 Mar 12 02:07 test.txt tim@hn:~$ ls -al /mnt/74bcf733-f29b-42db-bedd-1882056fb822/GTest total 12 drwxrwxr-x 2 tim tim 4096 Mar 12 01:25 . drwx------ 22 tim tim 4096 Mar 12 01:25 .. -rw-rw-r-- 1 tim tim 24 Mar 12 02:07 test.txt tim@hn:~$ ls -al ~/Dropbox/ETest total 48 drwxrwxr-x 2 tim tim 4096 Mar 12 01:24 . drwxrwxr-x 440 tim tim 32768 Mar 12 02:07 .. -rw-rw-r-- 1 tim tim 24 Mar 12 02:07 test.txt tim@hn:~$ ls -al ~/Dropbox/GTest total 48 drwxrwxr-x 2 tim tim 4096 Mar 12 01:25 . drwxrwxr-x 440 tim tim 32768 Mar 12 02:07 .. -rw-rw-r-- 1 tim tim 24 Mar 12 02:07 test.txt
tim@hn:~$ cat /mnt/74bcf733-f29b-42db-bedd-1882056fb822/FTest/test.txt
Just some text for test
tim@hn:~$ cat /mnt/74bcf733-f29b-42db-bedd-1882056fb822/GTest/test.txt
Just some text for test
tim@hn:~$ cat ~/Dropbox/ETest/test.txt
Just some text for test
tim@hn:~$ cat ~/Dropbox/GTest/test.txt
Just some text for test
tim@hn:~$ mount | grep 74bcf733 /dev/mapper/luks-60d82ae3-53f5-4e69-adea-98fa841b015c on /mnt/74bcf733-f29b-42db-bedd-1882056fb822 type ext4 (rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime,data=ordered) tim@hn:~$ cat /etc/fstab | grep 74bcf733 /dev/disk/by-uuid/74bcf733-f29b-42db-bedd-1882056fb822 /mnt/74bcf733-f29b-42db-bedd-1882056fb822 auto nosuid,nodev,nofail 0 0
Hi cipherguru,
Yes, you are right. Unfortunately seems Dropbox had changed their way to check used FS. Some time ago the check was independent for every one FS element (file or folder). Now seems full FS check is performed only for the Dropbox folder, itself; further, the folder content is checked to be part of the same block unit. This second check is something new and will affect any mount of something outside current block unit (real or virtual), don't even need to be another drive or partition. Dropbox doesn't try extend application feature set, but make users life heavier instead, again! Long time I hadn't used such type of mounts. Have to be considered this case (current workaround still work, but should to be extended to cover the case). If you have a time, while keep current solution, try find and reimplement other "guilty" functions (in the same way as those already swapped). I will try take a look when possible.
Good luck.
