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Dropbox is asking me to change location to Ext4

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My Dropbox keeps telling me, that it needs to be moved to ext4 filesystem.

The problem is, that when I have a look at my disk, I see this:

It seems, that my filesystem already is ext4.

Do you have any idea, what could be wrong? I found a similar question here.

I'm using only encrypted home folder - could the problem be solved just by moving my Dropbox folder outside of it?

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answered 3 Years ago ampust · Accepted Answer

Dropbox doesn't support eCryptfs.

As per this official documentation

Note: ecryptfs is not supported, but Dropbox will continue to sync with supported file systems that are encrypted via full disk encryption (e.g. LUKS)

Also another important note

If you’re running a supported operating system, but you see a message that your computer is unsupported, you may be running Dropbox in an unsupported configuration.