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Re:Ending support for Dropbox syncing to drives with certain... by ronjouch on Friday August 10, 2018 @09:31AM (#17733031)
> "It's not encrypted ext4, it's ecryptfs (which acts as a separate layer entirely, creating a virtual encrypted filesystem on top of ext4) - probably doesn't support some inotify feature or some extended attributes that aren't set correctly when used through ecryptfs."

Thanks, I updated the title.

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