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Axiom2018
7 years agoHelpful | Level 6
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...
michelfeu
New member | Level 2
This solution did the trick for me, too. Thanks @AminSadeghi
l0ngman
6 years agoExplorer | Level 3
Ah in the last 2 days the problem has magically returned again, after working with no problem for a month (it happened at the same time on 2 machines).
No idea what has changed. I presume it is a remotely activiated restriction. I'm sure I've not changed anything, after my gparted fiddle a month ago (posted earlier 11-13-2018 12:17 AM which fixed the problem on all 3 of my linux machines I use).
- l0ngman6 years agoExplorer | Level 3
michelfeu Just to clarify, what solution did you try, there have been a couple mentioned, one of which (mine) stopped working, I was a bit confused by the 3-steps from root solution, like it wasn't clear if that was fixable by us somehow, but you mentioned something worked ?
- michelfeu6 years agoNew member | Level 2
l0ngman wrote:michelfeu Just to clarify, what solution did you try, there have been a couple mentioned, one of which (mine) stopped working, I was a bit confused by the 3-steps from root solution, like it wasn't clear if that was fixable by us somehow, but you mentioned something worked ?
Hi, I created another director in /media/DropboxContainer, changed the permissions to user level (via chown) and redirected the Dropbox file to this location through the Dropbox menu. The program accepted it.
- Scaine6 years agoNew member | Level 2
I'm in the same boat. Paid sub, 16.04, mounted in /home/scaine/Misc/Dropbox (ext4). Got told a few months ago to move to an ext4 partition. So I moved it to /home/scaine/Dropbox, and it's been working fine since. Two or three days ago, I started getting nagged about unsupported file systems.
My sub is up on February, so I've that long to figure out how to run OwnCloud in AWS, or similar. Not a fan of this move by Dropbox at all - it wouldn't surprise me at all if this generates MORE support issues for them in the short term, but in the long term, they've driven all their Linux customers away, so long term gain for them? Who knows. Very frustrating experience though, so I'll look elsewhere now, I think.
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