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Axiom2018's avatar
Axiom2018
Helpful | Level 6
8 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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l0ngman's avatar
l0ngman
Explorer | Level 3
8 years ago

Reading updates on other posts, Dropbox users say it may have updated recently and started working again that way. So I'm still not 100% if it was what I did with Gparted or an update.
Good that it is working though on 3 of my Ubuntu machines.
Maybe I will do a test VM in the future with a fresh install and see when it works.

AminSadeghi's avatar
AminSadeghi
Helpful | Level 6
8 years ago

I think you're mistaken. When you create a new partition with gparted, it automatically mounts in /media/username/new-drive-label, hence three levels down the root. The problem is when you try to mount your new drive fewer than 3 levels down the root, ex. /media/new-drive-label.

So, I guess as it stands, the problem is not resolved yet.

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