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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...
Hi!
I found the library dropbox-filesytem-fix on github, this fixed the same error for me!
This is the library:
https://github.com/dark/dropbox-filesystem-fix
Here are the instructions.
https://www.linuxuprising.com/2018/11/how-to-use-dropbox-on-non-ext4.html
I have founfd a simple solution!
1. make a new directory as root user in the root directory (eg. "drop")
2. set the rights of this directory for the standart-user.
3. make this directory default in the dropbox-settings.
Thats it
It is quite frustrating and I believe dropbox support have not been very helpful here more than stating what FS they do support.
I started off with my problem with ext4 & ecrypfs on ubuntu 18.04. and as many others have managed to fix it by trying different approaches ending up in /var/<user>/Dropbox which is / partition of ext4 type managed under lvm.
But it didn't work under /home partition which is also ext4 and manged under lvm.
Both partitions are enabled with user_xattr since I could use setfattr/getfattr tools properly.What bothers me is that none of us can really pinpoint the problem, and since its closed source we cannot help each other in a good way. One would expect better technical support from dropbox explaining what triggers the check to fail leading to the error message.
If you cannot help us, just dump part of the source code around the error message.
