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Axiom2018's avatar
Axiom2018
Helpful | Level 6
7 years ago

Dropbox is compatible with Ext4 but doesn't recognize ext4 drive?

So, like most Linux users, I've gotten the message about needing to upgrade to an ext4 drive. I had an extra drive in my machine with nothing on it so I formatted it to ext4. I rebooted then went int...
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Jeroen O.'s avatar
Jeroen O.
Helpful | Level 5

I have a sneaking suspicion that Dropbox checks the location of the binary (/usr/bin/dropbox). I run a recent Ubuntu version with nautilus-dropbox installed. The root partition is ext3, the separate /home partition is ext4 so it should be good, yet Dropbox complains. I hope somebody can confirm this.

Axiom2018's avatar
Axiom2018
Helpful | Level 6
7 years ago

That's a good posibility as well which means I'm done with dropbox because I have my system set up the way I want and I'll be damned if I'm going to format and reinstall all my apps for an app I'm hardly using at the time. I'll figure out something else before I do that

  • dazinger's avatar
    dazinger
    New member | Level 2
    7 years ago
    I also have this issue. I am running Ubuntu 16.04 and have an ext4 partition, so this really surprises me that this problem occurs.

    I mean yeah sure I'm too lazy to format my main drive as well, but this problem seems like it only needs a trivial fix.

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