# Cannot Install to an External dDrive **URL:** \ **Category:** Support and Troubleshooting\ **Created:** [January 30, 2024, 10:19pm UTC](https://community.umbrel.com/t/cannot-install-to-an-external-ddrive/15059 "2024-01-30T22:19:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Caydog25](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/4af34b/32.png) [@Caydog25](https://community.umbrel.com/u/Caydog25)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2024, 10:19pm UTC](https://community.umbrel.com/t/cannot-install-to-an-external-ddrive/15059/1 "2024-01-30T22:19:00Z")
Hello, I am a pretty new umbrel user but have been doing tons of research lately on how I can make this thing better for the raspberry pi 5. Yesterday I went out and bought an 8TB drive and I installed raspbian to it, but soon learned that Linux will only use 2.2TB of the drive and the other 5.something TB is unallocated, since I spent tons of money on this drive I want to be able to use the whole drive. I then tried to install rasbian to my microsd card. I then configured my hdd to mount automatically with fstab and tried installing umbrel with the --install location /mnt/umbrel (location of my mounted hdd.) I am getting the error about permissions. anybody know a solution or have any suggestions on how I can incorporate my entire 8TB drive? Thanks! ---
**Author:** ![smolgrrr](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/community.umbrel.com/smolgrrr/32/2825_2.png) [@smolgrrr](https://community.umbrel.com/u/smolgrrr)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2024, 3:00am UTC](https://community.umbrel.com/t/cannot-install-to-an-external-ddrive/15059/2 "2024-01-31T03:00:35Z")
Interesting, what was the issue you were encountering preventing you from using the full 8TB initially? UmbrelOS uses the ext4 filesystem, and if you run UmbrelOS with Ubuntu/Debian, I would assume the relevant partition would expand to use the whole drive. Can you please also share the install command you used before getting the permissions issue. ---
**Author:** ![smolgrrr](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/community.umbrel.com/smolgrrr/32/2825_2.png) [@smolgrrr](https://community.umbrel.com/u/smolgrrr)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2024, 3:01am UTC](https://community.umbrel.com/t/cannot-install-to-an-external-ddrive/15059/3 "2024-01-31T03:01:20Z")
FYI we should also have an image for the Pi 5 that you can flash directly to your SD card and install UmbrelOS from shortly. ---
**Author:** ![my\_bitcoin](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/community.umbrel.com/my_bitcoin/32/5762_2.png) [@my\_bitcoin](https://community.umbrel.com/u/my_bitcoin)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2024, 7:55am UTC](https://community.umbrel.com/t/cannot-install-to-an-external-ddrive/15059/4 "2024-02-01T07:55:33Z")
Odd I run raspbian and use 2 - 4tb drives and they are fully allocated.