I looked up that Dropbox supposedly supports btrfs filesystem, but an error pops up that the filesystem is not supported, that I should change to ext4. Any workarounds or official stance on the support for btrfs?

I’m using Dropbox (from flatpak) on a system with btrfs. I didn’t have any problem or any popup with errors or telling I’m using an unsuportted fs.

FYI - that a common issue that people run into with these kinds of integrations is that the tools tend to offer /home/userid as part of the default mount location. Many have resolved their issue by changing the mount path to begin with /var/home/userid instead. @brogos do you remember if you had to…

Retargeting to /var/home worked on my last install and is still working on my desktop, but I finally got around to installing on my laptop and the problem I am finding is that the dialog that should pop up to let me move the target folder … just doesn’t appear? I get the usual “filesystem not suppo…

I’m seeing the exact same thing. Weirdly I had this working on my computer a week ago, but now on my wife’s computer it refuses to work. Won’t launch after clicking the move button. @klmcw the flatseal app shows that dropbox has the permissions for home by default.

Earlier this year, upstream (Fedora) changed the root (/) filesystem type to composefs for reasons. This is not a widely recognized filesystem type across the Linux landscape. And it has limitations. One of those limitations is what is being experienced in this case - namely, the DropBox flatpak do…

Any steps I can follow to do that?

I do apologize that I can only offer theory behind the suggestion. The reason is that I do not use Bazzite and I am aware there are differences. And, I have not used Drop Box myself for over 10 years. So I would not be able to test any theories I might come up with. But I am convinced that it has …

Interesting. Thank you for the detail, I am a staff software engineer familiar with linux (I run programming.dev actually), so the description helps, I’m just not familiar with a lot of the intricacies of linux, nor desktop linux. I’ve switched to cachyos and am trying to set up bazzite for my wife. …

To be clear, the Move button is an error message from Dropbox. [clipboard_2025-08-25_09-42]

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brogos August 21, 2025, 12:33pm 5

I just installed it with flatpak, launched it and logged. Nothing more.

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