Hi @lutchy.horace,
When you shut down the agent, you do not need to unmount first. When you start again it will mount what was mounted previously.
I think the sync scenario you described is just a matter of refresh. We do not have a method to monitor filesystem events on Linux, currently, so odrive will actively scan the defined mount occasionally, but not continually, since it can be expensive.
You had asked this above, but I was preoccupied with figuring out the setup. To answer your question, if you want something to sync up immediately, call refresh on the folder you placed the item into. That will tell odrive to look in that location for changes, immediately. odrive should pick it up then and sync. If you don’t do this, it should sync up on the next scan, but that could take up to an hour.