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Dec
18
2018
Dropbox To End Sync Support For All Filesystems Except Ext4 on Linux
Posted by ebal at 15:26:51 in blog, planet_ellak, planet_Sysadmin, planet_fsfe

I am only using btrfs for the last few years, without any problem. Drobox’s decision is based on supporting Extended file attributes and even so btrfs supports extended attributes, seems you will get this error:

dropbox_error

I have the benefit of using encrypted disks via LUKS so in this blog post, I will only present a way to have an virtual disk with ext4, to your dropbox folder on-top of your btrfs!

 

Allocating disk space

Let’s say that your have 2G of dropbox space, allocate 2G of file size:

fallocate -l 2G Dropbox.img

you can verify the disk image by:

qemu-img info Dropbox.img

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    Tag: dropbox
Mar
04
2018
Encrypted files in Dropbox
Posted by ebal at 19:18:28 in blog, planet_ellak, planet_Sysadmin, planet_fsfe

Encrypted files in Dropbox

As we live in the age of smartphones and mobility access to the cloud, the more there is the need to access our files from anywhere. We need our files to be available on any computer, ours (private) or others (public). Traveling with your entire tech equipment is not always a good idea and with the era of cloud you dont need to bring everything with you.

There are a lot of cloud hosting files providers out there. On wikipedia there is a good Comparison of file hosting services article you can read.

I’ve started to use Dropbox for that reason. I use dropbox as a public digital bucket, to store and share public files. Every digital asset that is online is somehow public and only when you are using end-to-end encryption then you can say that something is more secure than before.

I also ...

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    Tag: encfs, dropbox
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