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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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jameso's avatar
jameso
New member | Level 2
7 years ago

I'm in the same boat. After getting an email about my Linux server running 18.04 needed to be on ext4, I moved files all around and had to format my large drive that was still on ext3. After going to all of the trouble, it didn't like the partion, complaining that it still wasn't ext4. My fstab looks fine, so I think they have a bug.

UUID=blahblah /media/HD_1500_SAMSUNG ext4 rw,user,exec,auto,user_xattr 0 0

I'm using Dropbox v60.4.107. I had to put the Dropbox folder up one level (/media/HD_1500_SAMSUNG/DropboxContainer/Dropbox). Thank you AminSadeghi, your suggestion worked.

For a paying customer ($99) a year, I would think my setup is a common one. I have an SSD as the OS disk and spinners for my large storage disks. My Dropbox 1T account is on my spinners since it can take up that much space. I can see how they can't support all of these file systems, but they need to fix the only one they now support.

  • l0ngman's avatar
    l0ngman
    Explorer | Level 3
    7 years ago

    Weird thing happend to me, which meant I was able to resolve this issue,
    On 3 linux machines (2x Ubuntu 1x Ubuntu-Mate VM) all had this issue,
    I thought ok well lets create a new partition for dropbox anyway.

    When I used GParted and created a small partition of Ext4 if fixed the original
    problem of dropbox not recognising my original partition as a valid file type.
    After the repartition upon reboot into Linux dropbox started working again.
    It must be something to do with a Ubuntu install not setting something quite
    properly that then dropbox reads as not geninue. GParted seemed to fix it.

    Now I have a spare partition on every machine I don't need :/
    Anyway it was good to get it fixed.

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