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How to mount local folder as Volume?

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  • imc67I Offline
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    wrote on last edited by
    #1

    Hi all,

    My VPS disk space is huge, still I would like to use the new Volumes.

    So I was thinking of moving the data (videos and music) to a folder (what's the best place? in root or home/yellowtent?) and then mount that folder as a Volume. However searching the internet for this specific UC didn't gave me a clear answer/instruction 😞

    Does anyone has experience with this?

    Thanks in advance!

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  • girishG Offline
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    replied to imc67 on last edited by girish
    #2

    Ha! The choice is really down to just 4 paths since the code has explicitly white listed these. Only paths under /mnt, /media, /srv, /opt can be added as a volume. (I put a note in https://docs.cloudron.io/storage/#volumes as well now).

    My understanding is that /media is for removable items like /media/cdrom whereas /mnt is for user mounts of attached devices (like my windows partition mount etc). Personally, I put my stuff in /srv since it's not an external disk.

    But here's the FHS spec. If you find anything interesting, let me know 🙂 I am happy to add more paths to that list if other places are more common/correct.

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    The wikipedia article is more readable - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filesystem_Hierarchy_Standard

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    replied to girish on last edited by
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    @girish it works like a charm, absolutely awsome!

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