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ellyhartings
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8 months ago

Adding local space by mounting extra drive inside Dropbox folder

Hi, I am using Dropbox on linux and it works OK. It is installed on my home drive /home/myname/Dropbox, as it should. Syncing to and from the cloud works fine. My problem is that my home drive (/hom...
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Rich
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8 months ago
ellyhartings wrote:

My problem is that my home drive (/home/myname) is running out of space, so I mounted an extra drive inside the Dropbox directory on my home drive

I'm not a Linux expert by any means, but I don't think this will work. Dropbox only syncs the files physically located within the local Dropbox folder. It doesn't follow symlinks, junctions or mount points.

The correct way to do this is to move the Dropbox folder to a larger drive, or replace your existing drive with a larger one.

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