Hello:


I have been trying to place my DropBox folder on it's own, separate partition, /dev/sda5.

Using KDE Partition Manager, I see that sda5 is mounted at: /media/disk and is 19.72 Gib with 171.94 MiB used. (my DropBox folder is about 2 GiB in size)

This has got to mean that my DropBox folder is not there, right?

Previously, I altered my fstab to include this:
I did this because I had done:
thinking that, by doing so, would put the DropBox folder on sda5 when using the DropBox installed and selecting '/mnt/drpbox' as the location for my DropBox folder, which is what I did.

I don't think that this correct. I think that my DropBox folder is either still in sda3 (/home) of sda1 (/).

If anyone can help me sort this out, I would really appreciate it.

Thanks,

Hi Robert!

Do you want to say sdA5, or just sd5?

On bott, the kernel shows any message error about this line of fstab?

Please, post if this help you!

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You're correct, it should have been sda5!

I have now deleted the entire entry and my fstab is:
I have removed DropBox using sbopkg.
I have searched for 'dropbox' or '.dropbox' and can find no files or folders - DropBox, I assume, is entirely gone and the fstab is back to its original state.
I have run lilo and rebooted.

add'l info: Gparted shows sda5 as 'not mounted'.

Can you tell me how to properly set up my system so that I will be able to select sda5 as a working location for the 'DropBox' folder?

Thanks for any help with this,

Robert, you want to change the location of the configuration files of DropBox?

If it is yes, I think that configuration files of a Display Manager are stored on the user directory for their preferences...

So, I'm not a professional, I'm just a curious person, I can be wrong =P

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Hi Marcos:

I have removed everything concerning 'DropBox' so I am going to start all over again and see if I can get it set up correctly.

Thanks for your time,

Hello:

I think that the problem was the issue that Marcos caught - I had sd5 instead of sda5 in the fstab file - thanks, Marcos.

Caution: I am an inexperienced Slackware user.

Anyway, I totally removed everything to do with Dropbox and did the following which absolutely does work:

1. Code:

   root@slackbox:/home/rob# mkdir /mnt/backup

2. Code:

   root@slackbox:/home/rob# chown -R rob /mnt/backup

3. changed the fstab to look like this:
   
   Quote:

   /dev/sda2 swap swap defaults 0 0 /dev/sda1 / ext4 defaults 1 1 /dev/sda3 /home ext4 defaults 1 2 /dev/sda5 /mnt/backup ext4 noatime,user_xattr 1 2 /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom auto noauto,owner,ro 0 0 /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto noauto,owner 0 0 devpts /dev/pts devpts gid=5,mode=620 0 0 proc /proc proc defaults 0 0 tmpfs /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0 tmpfs /tmp tmpfs defaults 0 0

4. Updated lilo and rebooted
5. Used sbopkg to install DropBox
6. Selected '/mnt/backup' as the location for the DropBox folder.

Now I am certain that the DropBox folder is living in sda5 and that DropBox is working perfectly.

Marking as SOLVED.

I'm happy for can help you Robert!

Happy Linux =D