I tell you, I tell you I have a Bmax mini pc has 500 GB but it has a slot for a 2.5. extra sata install a new 1 TB theory has in the bios it detects it but I turn on the normal mini pc i unbre does not detect the memory of a 1 TB but in the bios it is installed that there is some connection solution
Its Linux so you have to tell it what to do with the drive.
Umbrel is a dumb docker program that is isolated from the real OS its running on.
connect a monitor and keyboard to it, or ssh into it from another computer using the default creadentials that you have to change on the real OS side:
user: umbrel
password: umbrel
What is your drive storage layout, and system memory:
lsblk -a
free -m
then how do you want to use it:
as just a drive to hold something like documents/pictures
or expand the existing storage over all.
Then we can go from there.
I want to node btc.
ok, the first thing to get is a usb thumb drive and flash ubuntu 24.04 desktop install usb on it, then you boot from that and setup the mount. so you will need to connect a monitor and keyboard to the computer because you can’t modify any system mounts while booted to the installation.
then we can go from there just copying and moving /home or the whole docker to the new drive.
But to give you an example of an Umbrel converted to LVM storage, which is Linux’s way of adding unlimited amount of drives, I started with just a 500GB drive and added a 2 TB.
This one I haven’t finished setting up 100%
But you can see, I have the 417GB and 1.9TB partitions merged to one logical volume. Next I am going to move the / or root partition into the 50G and delete sda2 and expand the 50G debian_vg and the logical volume in it so it will be 59 GB of storage for the Debian OS Umbrel is running on.
Then after that I’m going to get rid of anything associated with /mnt because it shouldn’t be needed.