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MichaelGeigl
New member | Level 2
8 years ago

Linux support für NTFS endet - Problem mit Dualboot!

Hallo Community   Wie vermutlich alle bereits wissen wird ab Anfang November unter Linux nur mehr ext4 supported.   Ich habe damit aber ein Problem, den ich hab meinen Laptop mit 3 Partitione...
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tar0n
Helpful | Level 5
7 years ago
How about putting the Linux Dropbox folder on your Ext4 /home partition and linking or mounting the "real" Dropbox folder from the NTFS partition into there? I think Dropbox will be fooled by the link and still sync because it thinks the files are in the Ext4 partition even though they're not.
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MichaelGeigl
New member | Level 2
7 years ago

Thanks for the hint.

I used the command ln -fs <source> <destination> to generate the link. Its working!

I still do not get the reason why dropbox changed the support under linux especially when its working with this trick but ok.

thx

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