Loading Dropbox on start-up when my Dropbox folder is on separate partition

Solution 1:

Yeah.

You would need to mount your partition when your system starts.

For detailed guide refer Automatically Mount Partitions in Ubuntu.

If your have external NTFS partition then ntfs-config will ease your task and let you mount all ntfs partitions easily. To install ntfs-config, open terminal and type;

sudo apt-get install ntfs-config

Solution 2:

I edited the /etc/fstab file.

Step 1. List your partitions by UUID:

sudo blkid

Step 2. Edit /etc/fstab file.

To edit the file directly in terminal, run:

sudo nano -Bw /etc/fstab

Step 3. Insert an extra line in fstab; the line should look like:

UUID="01CE8D75DCC82F80"    /media/G-Drive    ntfs  rw,auto,user,fmask=0111,dmask=0000   0     0

You will have to replace 01CE8D75DCC82F80 with your UUID.

You will have to replace /media/G-Drive with the location where you want to mount.

You might want to change ntfs if your partition is a different type.

If you change ntfs than you might have to change options as well (rw,auto,user,fmask=0111,dmask=0000 gives anybody access to this NTFS partition).

Step 4. Restart and keep fingers crossed, if "Drobox Unlink-ed message" not shown than you have been successful.

Solution 3:

You can edit your /etc/fstab file to add whichever partition you need. You can find the wiki here.