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		dflock on June 12, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The new Dropbox The dropbox linux client works, but it's not great. It's recently stopped syncing for me because it now only supports ext4 filesystems, for some reason - and I currently have everything on btrfs.

layer8 on June 13, 2019 [–]

You can use a loopback file to work around that, e.g. see https://metabubble.net/linux/how-to-keep-using-dropbox-even-....

dflock on June 17, 2019 | [–]

Thanks, didn't know that. I think I'll just stop using Dropbox, though.

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