How to use an attached SSD storage?

doomilation

Hi, I'm running an instance at Scaleway and I need to use an extra storage for Nextcloud.
The extra SSD is mounted under /mnt/data but I don't know how to use it in Cloudron / Netxcloud.
Is there is a way to do that?

nebulon

Hi, this is a common request we get and as @girish mentioned in https://forum.cloudron.io/topic/1631/what-s-coming-in-3-5/2 we will start introducing some features around storage/volume management with the next release. Until that, we cannot really recommend tinkering with the used volumes besides what is documented here.

doomilation

Ok, thanks for the clarification @nebulon
I'll have a look on this

girish

@doomilation Yes, we are working on a way to add external storage in our upcoming release. I will update this post as we have some updates.

tadeas

@girish Hi, any news on this?

stoccafisso

@tadeas Hi, could this be something useful? https://cloudron.io/documentation/storage/#move-the-data-directory-to-another-location

girish

@doomilation As pointed out in the previous comment, currently you can just create a symlink the app's data directory to an external storage -https://cloudron.io/documentation/storage/#move-the-data-directory-to-another-location

In 4.1, we are hoping to provide this functionality in the UI.

doomilation

@girish Hi. Just to be sure: I want to move the mail folder to an ext storage.
Can I just move the boxdata like this:

systemctl stop cloudron.target
   systemctl stop docker
   DATA_DIR="/mnt/data"  # this is the external disk location
   mkdir -p "${DATA_DIR}"

  move out box data to the external disk
   mv /home/yellowtent/boxdata "${DATA_DIR}"
   ln -s "${DATA_DIR}/boxdata " /home/yellowtent/boxdata

systemctl start docker
   systemctl start cloudron.target

Or do I need to move appsdata + platformdata to the same location?

girish

@doomilation Yes, what you have done should work. You don't have to move out appsdata and platformdata.