<wiki> | Using and external disk as a data directory for nextcloud

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This article is not a well though out writeup- rather a dump of what to do when I fuck up again and need to reinstall my nextcloud.

I provisioned a 60 GB external hardisk to serve as my data folder in nextcloud.

  1. Check if the external device is mounted df -h wiki_nextcloudMediaDir1

It isnt

  1. check for storage decides: lsblk

Now if you find the external disk, it’ll be in /dev, special filesystem that holds a reference to every device attached on your disk

I got the 60 gigs HDD that I provisioned as sdb1 wiki_nextcloudMediaDir2

  1. Create a partition on the new disk. You can use gdisk or fdisk. Since I already have the partition I’ll move to next step.

  2. Reformat the partition as ext4 just to be safe mkfs.ext4 /dev/sdb1

  3. add it to fstab

  • Get the UUID of the HDD blkid

  • sudo nano /etc/fstab add the new device: /dev/disk/by-uuid/c7c8c8b8-e9f5-4c21-8b74-a530db0f50dc /media/nextcloud ext4 defaults 0 2

This is how my fstab looks like: wiki_nextcloudMediaDir3 save it.

Make a dir media/nextcloud 5. mount it sudo mount -a

  1. Check to make sure it’s mounted" df -h wiki_nextcloudMediaDir4

it is! We can now use it

  1. change ownership of this folder to www-data sudo chown -R www-data:www-data /media/nextcloud

  2. While setting up netcloud thorugh the webinterface, just use /media/nextcloud as the Data folder

  3. To check what port maria db is runnig on: sudo netstat -tnlp