Dropbox has ended all other filesystems except ext4 on linux. Unfortunately my VPS on Qcloud is not ext4, so I can not use dropbox the last few months. Today I decided to add a data drive which can be formatted as ext4 to get my dropbox syncing back. Below is the steps, thanks to this questions1.
First, remove all dropbox related directories.
rf -rf ~/.dropbox-dist
rf -rf ~/.dropbox
Second, install dropbox daemon according to 2. Note that you need to download the tarball and extract it to the desired directory, say /data/db/, manually.
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