I'm trying to get dropbox to sync in a slightly unorthodox way. I'm running a server with proxmox amongst other things, and Lubuntu is a VM on there (its the best behaved desktop linux to remote to), running docker and ideally dropbox. It has a 500Gb primary partition, and a 3Tb drive passed through from the host. I'm trying to get dropbox to do anything at this point, but ideally, I'd like it to sync to /mnt/d2/dropbox.
I connected dropbox to this folder and the tray icon just flashes between dropbox syncing and a folder icon. I cant find mention of this in the support section.
When I started docker, it initially tried to use /home/username/dropbox, but I clicked 'Move' and it displayed "Moving Dropbox (6/9) 66%" for 12 hours before I closed it. On restarting dropbox, it shows the new location.
The tray popup says "Starting..."
Ive tried reinstalling, installing dropbox, nautilus-dropbox, the package on the website, and all give me basically the same error. (well, the command line one was worse becuase it doesnt appear to support changing the default directory unless you follow a linux rabbit hole and run these 40 commands)
I'm at the point where I'm tempted to just provision a Windows 10 VM to do this simple task, but that seems absurd and a waste of 8Gb RAM. Surely there is a way to do this.
Oh, and whilst it really shouldn't matter, the drive is formatted as ext4, previously this was btrfs, but apparently that isn't allowed by drobox?
Please help. Please.
