I was asked about this in another post of mine and thought it really deserves its own post on this forum. This guide should hopefully give you a quick run over of how to mount an external storage drive and how to re-provision the docker volumes to access the storage as well. DISCLAIMER: I DO NOT H…

Thanks! It seems strange though that it needs to be this complex to just choose storage drive for our files. Should just be a setting from each app or from the general Umbrel interface. But i guess im missing something…?

It’s not an option thus far. As it stands now umbel is still in beta with 1.0 still not coming out for another month or so. It would be great if that was an option for umbrel as well as normal umbrel users but at this point that is not the case.

I am doing almost the same but using fstab, the only problem is that after a system updated it will be erased. umbrel@umbrel:~/umbrel/app-data$ cat /etc/fstab /dev/disk/by-partuuid/14a31e9d-a8d7-4da0-9eb2-f268dd9d7ad9 /boot/efi auto defaults,sync 0 0 /dev/root / …

Have you tried this method on v. 1.2.1? What happens if the hdd is mounted and you restart umbrel? Does it uses the hdd to boot umbrel ?

you should change the /dev/sda3 path to a uuid which is more resistent when startup umbrel. the path can change when adding another external storage like an sd card or something like that. reach out if you need help

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