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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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ADinamita's avatar
ADinamita
New member | Level 2

So, this means that it is no longer possible to use Dropbox when ecryptfs is also running?

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

ADinamita -  exactly

 

Jdu - that's the same set up I'm using except I'm trying to move to a non-encrypted ext4 drive and the software is saying it's not a valid location (or some BS similar to that). I mostly just use it as a quick and easy method of transfering from my phone to the computer so guess I need to start looking at bluetooth or something else.

  • dtamayo's avatar
    dtamayo
    Explorer | Level 4
    7 years ago

    I'm having the same problem. Here are the relevant lines from sudo blkid

    /dev/nvme0n1p1: UUID="495..." TYPE="ext4" PARTUUID="afa..."

    /dev/nvme1n1p1: UUID="19d..." TYPE="ext4" PARTUUID="44f..."

    I currently have dropbox running correctly on nvme1, which is where the OS (Ubuntu 18.04) is installed. But when I try to move the folder location to the (mounted) nvme0, I get the same incompatible filesystem error.

    Here is what my /etc/fstab lines look like:

    UUID=19d... / ext4 errors=remount-ro 0 1

    UUID=495... /mnt/ssd ext4 defaults 0 2

    I tried changing the options on the drive that's not working to errors=remount-ro so that they would match, but that also did not fix the problem.

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

      Not sure it will work for you but I totally uninstalled the app, left it a few days and then grabbed the files to install again. Once I did, it did an update (59.4.93) and is now working with no messages on an ext3 drive partition

      # / was on /dev/sda1 during installation
      UUID=1da462b1-03bf-422f-ae4c-5a8b3a87b82b / ext3 errors=remount-ro 0 1
      # /home was on /dev/sda3 during installation
      UUID=0e0bec2a-aaca-4883-a206-3bb13a64a676 /home ext3 defaults 0 2
      # swap was on /dev/sda2 during installation
      UUID=0aa4f146-4b6a-4c40-9bf8-23648479eb49 none swap sw 0 0
      /dev/sr0 /media/cdrom0 udf,iso9660 user,noauto 0 0

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