# Installing UmbrelOS 1.2.1 on 8tb Drive **URL:** \ **Category:** Support and Troubleshooting\ **Created:** [July 23, 2024, 4:29am UTC](https://community.umbrel.com/t/installing-umbrelos-1-2-1-on-8tb-drive/18485 "2024-07-23T04:29:30Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![necrozma](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/41988e/32.png) [@necrozma](https://community.umbrel.com/u/necrozma)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2024, 4:29am UTC](https://community.umbrel.com/t/installing-umbrelos-1-2-1-on-8tb-drive/18485/1 "2024-07-23T04:29:30Z")
So I am doing a fresh install of UmbrelOS onto a 8tb drive. When I boot up with the installer, I select to install UmbrelOS on the 8tb drive. After doing the install and rebooting the machine, the storage space only shows 124MB. Below is a df -a of the machine after ssh’ing into it: umbrel@umbrel:~$ df -h Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on udev 7.7G 0 7.7G 0% /dev tmpfs 1.6G 1.9M 1.6G 1% /run /dev/sda2 9.6G 3.7G 5.5G 41% / tmpfs 7.8G 0 7.8G 0% /dev/shm tmpfs 5.0M 0 5.0M 0% /run/lock /dev/sdb4 119M 6.8M 103M 7% /data /dev/sdb1 200M 46M 154M 23% /boot/efi tmpfs 1.6G 0 1.6G 0% /run/user/1000 The machine can see the drive dev, but the OS was installed on sdb1? This makes no sense at all. I can’t even install a single application because it says the Storage only has 124mb left. ---
**Author:** ![aeon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/57b2e6/32.png) [@aeon](https://community.umbrel.com/u/aeon)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2024, 8:25am UTC](https://community.umbrel.com/t/installing-umbrelos-1-2-1-on-8tb-drive/18485/2 "2024-07-23T08:25:38Z")
Do you run UmbrelOS on a phsyiscal machine or VM? If later, it seems to be a common issue recently. Only solution so far for me was to boot up GParted and expand the 124MB partition myself. ---
**Author:** ![necrozma](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/41988e/32.png) [@necrozma](https://community.umbrel.com/u/necrozma)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2024, 4:44pm UTC](https://community.umbrel.com/t/installing-umbrelos-1-2-1-on-8tb-drive/18485/3 "2024-07-23T16:44:51Z")
Its a physical machine - a N200 based mini pc. ---
**Author:** ![aeon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/57b2e6/32.png) [@aeon](https://community.umbrel.com/u/aeon)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2024, 5:12pm UTC](https://community.umbrel.com/t/installing-umbrelos-1-2-1-on-8tb-drive/18485/4 "2024-07-23T17:12:12Z")
Ok so usually this bug can be observed on virtual machines, but apparently it’s also found on phyiscal machines. I found one of the threads where the same behaviour is described: > [@UmbrelOS 1.1.1 on a Intel NUC has /data filesystem full](https://community.umbrel.com/t/umbrelos-1-1-1-on-a-intel-nuc-has-data-filesystem-full/16883/6): > > Hey @Ebelloli sorry this slipped under our radar, would you be able to get us the full logs from your device so we could take a look at what went wrong with the fs expansion logic? You can get them with sudo journalctl | gzip \> journal.log.gz You can DM it to me if you don’t want to post your logs publicly. Also does rebooting solve the issue? The filesystem expansion logic runs on each boot so potentially if something went wrong on the first boot and reboot could resolve it. Afaik @lukechilds has been interested in solving this issue. Maybe you can post your system logs here for him. edit: here’s another thread: [https://community.umbrel.com/t/after-fresh-install-no-disk-space](https://community.umbrel.com/t/after-fresh-install-no-disk-space) ---
**Author:** ![necrozma](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/41988e/32.png) [@necrozma](https://community.umbrel.com/u/necrozma)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2024, 6:06pm UTC](https://community.umbrel.com/t/installing-umbrelos-1-2-1-on-8tb-drive/18485/5 "2024-07-23T18:06:00Z")
Thanks… Umbrel is super buggy which sucks because I would love to run it as my home server. ---
**Author:** ![aeon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/57b2e6/32.png) [@aeon](https://community.umbrel.com/u/aeon)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2024, 8:07pm UTC](https://community.umbrel.com/t/installing-umbrelos-1-2-1-on-8tb-drive/18485/6 "2024-07-23T20:07:48Z")
Yeah I think it’s a long way there, and I would actually recommend using a NAS OS if you want to use a machine as your home server. ---
**Author:** ![chiptuner](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/community.umbrel.com/chiptuner/32/6101_2.png) [@chiptuner](https://community.umbrel.com/u/chiptuner)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2024, 6:12pm UTC](https://community.umbrel.com/t/installing-umbrelos-1-2-1-on-8tb-drive/18485/7 "2024-07-24T18:12:38Z")
hey @necrozma I have been playing with your issue for a little while now, and I had a few questions. It seems like you may not be the only one having this issue, can you tell me a bit more about your configuration? I ran into a similar issue, so I dug into how umbrelOS handles resizing the volume after startup. I’m still working though it on my end at the moment. How are you installing umbrelOS and what version? What machine are you targeting? More specifically could you tell me what kind of disk controller you are using? Finally, any chance you could run an lsblk and share the results? As you can see SDA4 partition is where umbrel stores persistent container data. ---
**Author:** ![necrozma](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/41988e/32.png) [@necrozma](https://community.umbrel.com/u/necrozma)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2024, 9:16pm UTC](https://community.umbrel.com/t/installing-umbrelos-1-2-1-on-8tb-drive/18485/8 "2024-07-24T21:16:38Z")
Sure: Installing UmbrelOS 1.2.1 via USB memcard. I am installing it on a Beelink N100 based machine. I am not sure what kind of disk controller is built into this box. Below is the output of lsblk: umbrel@umbrel:~$ lsblk NAME MAJ:MIN RM SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINTS sda 8:0 0 476.9G 0 disk |-sda1 8:1 0 200M 0 part /mnt/root/boot/efi | /boot/efi |-sda2 8:2 0 9.8G 0 part |-sda3 8:3 0 9.8G 0 part `-sda4 8:4 0 457.1G 0 part sdb 8:16 0 7.3T 0 disk |-sdb1 8:17 0 200M 0 part |-sdb2 8:18 0 9.8G 0 part /mnt/root | / |-sdb3 8:19 0 9.8G 0 part `-sdb4 8:20 0 7.3T 0 part /mnt/root/var/log /var/log /mnt/root/var/lib/systemd/timesync /var/lib/systemd/timesync /mnt/root/var/lib/docker /var/lib/docker /mnt/root/home /home /mnt/root/data /data So it turns out, after rebooting the machine a few times the size of the disk is now showing. It took about 2 hours to finally boot as it was stuck on some fs check during boot. Once that cleared the machine booted up and the drive / space was showing. I hope this helps. ---
**Author:** ![chiptuner](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/community.umbrel.com/chiptuner/32/6101_2.png) [@chiptuner](https://community.umbrel.com/u/chiptuner)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2024, 9:27pm UTC](https://community.umbrel.com/t/installing-umbrelos-1-2-1-on-8tb-drive/18485/9 "2024-07-24T21:27:09Z")
I’m glad you got it figured out, I learned that using `resize2fs` might have been the silver bullet in your case. Dunno, but I believe `resize2fs` is called during system startup to ensure that this happens. ---
**Author:** ![necrozma](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/41988e/32.png) [@necrozma](https://community.umbrel.com/u/necrozma)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2024, 9:49pm UTC](https://community.umbrel.com/t/installing-umbrelos-1-2-1-on-8tb-drive/18485/10 "2024-07-24T21:49:17Z")
Thanks and yes I am glad it worked out as well. I can’t remember the exact fs function / binary that was called on boot but it hung for a while and I could hear the external drive doing something. I think if I have to re-built this server again I will just go with a 2tb SSD for speed. It seems to be running fine now though in regards to drive read/write access.