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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...
Hmm. It's strange since I still can't set the target directory to be /media/mydrive/Dropbox. Do you have any clue how I can get around it?
Did you try competely uninstalling, grabbing the new files and installing fresh then letting it update?
I don't know what he's done, or hasn't done, but I've got a fresh installation of debian that I've been trying to move the storage location of, and it's giving me the same error.
I've got dropbox installed and operating, but I get the error when I try to move the storage location to...anywhere, even if it's just from /home/me/thisisstupid/Dropbox instead of just /home/me/Dropbox. (although I'm trying to move it off the 32gb eMMC and onto the 1tb hdd.)
EDIT: I've found a solution (read: handed a solution by a very helpful guy on stack exchange) for my particular problem. Specifically, dropbox uses extended file attributes, and needs to have user_xattr added as a mounting option in fstab.
Credit where credit is due, here's the post by TelCom that gave the solution.
might help others here, but I dunno.
I still had troubles with moving the Dropbox directory (from ~/Dropbox to /data/Dropbox) so for now I just did `ln -s /data /data/.here` and passed the symlink to the app. Works for now but I'd like to see this fixed in the future.
sorican The fix you posted didn't work for me. I added user_xattr to my fstab for the drive I want Dropbox in. Is there anything else I need to do?
I installed the 64bit version, once it was installed it said something about updating and when it was done, I had version 59.4.93. I didn't do anything else.
I was getting the same error when trying to move Dropbox into /media/lacho/Dropbox (that folder uses ext4, non-encryptfs).
So I used another folder /opt/lacho/Dropbox and this time is recognized it. Both folders have the same fs, but I guess Dropbox seems to have some issue with /media.
And this happens on Linux Mint with the latest .deb installation (59.4.93).
The only issue I have now is that when moving it actually created one more "Dropbox" folder, so the path is now /opt/lacho/Dropbox/Dropbox which is very ugly, but when i try to move it to one folder up, it says "unsupported fs" once again.
