I see a lot of people struggling with attaching and mounting drives to use with the various apps. Umbrel so far seems very slick at making basics easy, so that should extend as soon as possible to adding multiple drives.
I think many people using Umbrel have the same idea as me, making DIY personal servers out of whatever components are affordable to assemble between cpus and storage.
My situation, for context:
On my previous experimental mini server (it just suddenly died one day) I’d set up with a small internal M2 and two larger external drives on usb. It was running Mint.
My new server is slightly larger and has room for a second ssd within the case. After installing Umbrel (very smooth) I put one inside and the other on usb. Only the usb drive showed up within the web interface but it also reported that it needed a reformat.
Going to the terminal, I could see that both drives were present and not mounted. After finding a suitable set of commands to make a mount point, the internal drive appears okay. I chose to mount it in the home area, so I’m even seeing it in the web interface. This ideally should have just appeared as an option to mount in the web ui.
The usb drive oddly disappeared from lsblk after that. I restarted and it appears again. I’m trying to check it with smartctl (had to install) is stuck and fsck reports a problematic superblock, so I guess it did get damaged.
Either way, basic drive mounting and things should really be built in to make this aspect as slick as the rest of Umbrel. Also no one wants to manually remake mount points when there’s an update.