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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...
I think Dropbox might have solved the problem in the latest update. As of now, I no longer have this problem and can use my ext4 drive to host Dropbox, no matter how deep or shallow I go in the directory hierarchy. Previously, it seemed that Dropbox only likes to be hosted 3 levels down the root, but this issue seems to have been fixed.
While I've been very frustrated with Dropbox for this annoying issue, I take the opportunity to thank Walter for conveying our discomfort to the developers. I wish you all a new year full of prosperity and better customer support :)
Cheers,
Amin
The problem in my case was the following. The ext4 partition was mounted to /home/ but the Dropbox folder was specified as /<PCname>/<Username>/Dropbox where /<PCname> was symbolic link to /home/ . Since the root partition (/) is not ext4 Dropbox refused to sync to the specified folder. After changing the Dropbox folder to /home/<Username>/Dropbox it was accepted and after 20hours of new syncing it is working fine now.
By the way, the Linux packages of dropbox are GPL. I thought this would mean access to the code...
