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ellyhartings
New member | Level 2
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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ellyhartings
New member | Level 2
8 months ago

Many thanks Rich for the quick reply!
The problems I have are:
1. I am aware of the need for a larger drive and I was just looking into how to replace the drive ( which are 2 disks in Raid 1) - this is not so straight forward, I noticed... I really need to do some more reading... This seems risky if it is not done exactly in the right way. But then there is an alternative solition:
2. I do have a larger partition to move the Dropbox dirrectory to, but how do I move the Dropbox directory? I have Dropbox installed on Rocky Linux9 (not Ubuntu or Fedore) using Flatpack. In this installation I cannot find, or do not have the Dropbox software which apparently has a function to move the Dropbox folder. Any idea how I can solve this?

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