Pointer for how to get an external SSD set up?

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I’ve installed Umbrel on a HP laptop using the flash image umbrelos-amd64-usb-installer.iso.

The laptop has a small hard drive (~40 GB), so I also have a 2 TB Seagate external hard drive plugged into the USB port.

Can I ask, how do I get Umbrel to use the external hard drive to store the bitcoin blockchain? I’ve been searching around and haven’t found an article for how to do it.

On the main Umbrel splash page, it only shows the 40 GB capacity of the laptop hard drive. If I go into Files, then Umbrel sees the drive as external storage. I tried running the bitcoin node, and it filled up the laptop hard drive.

Many thanks for any help!

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No way it can be done natively in the OS at the moment. There is a way which involves cocking about with CLI but isn’t user friendly. Sadly this is a feature I’ve been waiting for for ages.

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How are you with Unix CLI Commands with the umbrelOS?

You would need to either mount the 2nd drive where you want the storage to be, like I do:

/dev/nvme1n1 1.8T 890G 851G 52% /home/umbrel/umbrel/app-data/bitcoin

Or use a symbolic link to get the data where you want it. Which I do for some other apps:

umbrel@umbrel PROD:~/umbrel/app-data$ ls -l ~/umbrel/app-data/retro-mike-*
lrwxrwxrwx 1 umbrel umbrel 72 Jan 23 22:56 /home/umbrel/umbrel/app-data/retro-mike-bc2-node → /home/umbrel/umbrel/app-data/bitcoin/retro-mike-apps/retro-mike-bc2-node

This would mean you install umbrelOS on the Primary Drive and hope it is not too small to run things!

NOTE: These changes will NOT survive an update from Umbrel!!!

2TB External SSD as primary