I'm currently using Dropbox (although alternatives are welcome!) to sync my work files.
Since symbolic links no longer work with Dropbox, we have to use a bind mount to reference other areas of the system outside of /home/me/Dropbox:
mount --bind /var/www /home/me/Dropbox/var/www
I have set up the following in fstab:
/var/www /home/me/Dropbox/var/www none defaults,bind,x-gvfs-hide 0 0
This works fine for this location since permissions on /var/www are 0755
I want to go further and add /var/lib/mysql to my sync locations but permissions here are 0700. It makes sense that Dropbox can't read this and the only solutions I have found regarding permissions is to chown or chmod them which I don't want to do in this case. I understand that ext4 can't handle uid/gid options either.
Any sugesstions/workarounds?
