Extending nextcloud storage to a new disk

[jdd-y-forum]

What app is this about, and its version: Nextcloud from yunohost install
What YunoHost version are you running: not sure, recent
What type of hardware are you using: Old laptop or computer

Describe your issue

Hello,
I have a yunohost running on a virtualbox. I manage the host as well as the virtualmachine, all is ok.
The present virtual machine is too small. I added a 2TB ssd to the system, and created an other virtual disk. Now I have two virtual disks, say 1 (with yunohost) and 2 (empty).
I want to access the second disk from yunohost, precisely Nextcloud.
I don’t want to move Nextcloud, but add the second disk as external Nextcloud storage.
My problem is that I don’t know what is the path to the local disk for Nextcloud.
If I give the absolute path from the host Nextcloud don’t see it.

My question: where may have to mount a disk on yunohost to make it available to applications?

I can access the yunohost debian install, but the way yunohost manage it’s files is not obvious

Any link appreciated
Thanks

Share relevant logs or error messages

no error I know of

[jarod5001]

Yunohost is debian based. So you can go the debian way.

Mount your drive, create a dedicated folder for nextcloud with permissions “nextcloud:nextcloud”, then in nextcloud go to the admin area > external storage and use the path to the nextcloud folder you created

[jdd-y-forum]

Already mounted in a folder, may be the permissions needs fixing, I will test asap

thanks

[jdd-y-forum]

Well… it’s not the problem. I guess I have to ask on virtualbox forum…

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host-yuno@debianhost:~$ vboxmanage list hdds | grep vdi
Location: /home/host-yuno/VirtualBox VMs/yunohost/yunohost.vdi
Location: /home/host-yuno/ssd-nextcloud/yunohost_2.vdi

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(simplified)

yunohost and of course nextcloud are on yunohost.vdi virtual disk, and the free ssd space on the yunohost-2.vdi

the problem is to make the second visible from the first

writing “ /home/host-yuno/ssd-nextcloud/yunohost_2.vdi” in nextcloud is not accepted and there is no nextcloud user on the host, so I can’t change he permissions (-rw------- 1 host-yuno host-yuno 536874057728 17 nov. 12:00 yunohost_2.vdi)

to be continued

thanks

jdd

[jarod5001]

No, that’s not what you have to do.

yunohost_2.vdi is in your host.

In your VM settings, go to storage, add disk in the “controller :SATA”. Then reboot your VM.

Now, from your VM, you can see it and mount it.

[jdd-y-forum]

It’s what I did:

screen copy

I have the two virtual disks in the virtual machine sata part, but still don’t know how to find the path nextcloud ask for.

thanks

jdd

[jarod5001]

Good, but you have to format the disk and mount it on the server. Follow this video tutorial

Step-by-Step Guide: Mounting a New Hard Drive in Linux

You will get your new disk mounted on /mnt/yourdrive

Then create a dedicated folder for nextcloud :

sudo mkdir /mnt/yourdrive/nextcloud 

Then allow nextcloud to use it :

sudo chown nextcloud:nextcloud /mnt/yourdrive/nextcloud 

Replace “yourdrive” with the name you gave to the folder you mounted it on.

Then use

/mnt/yourdrive/nextcloud

In nextcloud external storage (local)

[jdd-y-forum]

Yes, I know that. My problem (solved) was to find where this ssd disk was in the yunohost system.

I could find it with lsblk, it was /dev/sdb

then I could open it with fdisk, create a partiton, format is as vfat with mkfs and finally mount it in a folder specially created for it in the the yunohost user.

And nextcloud accept it

I know, installing yunohost in a virtual machine is not recommended, but the host was already used for some other stuff, so I couldn’t keep it only for yuno.

So I had to manage cascading mounts (host, virtual, yuno) and it’s a bit mind blowing

I can gives details if anybody needs it.

thanks, your notices helped me a lot managing the stuff!

jdd