Unofficial Guide: How to add more storage :information_source: Important Disclaimer This guide is experimental and should not be used unless you know exactly what you are doing and are prepared to take on the risks of potentially losing important data. If you want to add external storage to your…

I followed the steps and it’s finally working :tada: Notes: Even if my drive was formated to ext4 and had a PARTUUID, my first attempt failed. It was better after formating the drive with fdisk and gdisk I created and mounted my drive inside umbrel/data/storage/ (complete path: umbrel/data/st…

That worked with Jellyfin, thank you! However, I still haven’t been able to do the same for Bitcoin. The Bitcoin Docker Compose file doesn’t include a volume parameter for the blocks. Does anyone have a solution for this?

I don’t use Bitcoin but if the Docker Compose file doesn’t include a volume parameter for blocks, I suppose that you would have to edit the Bitcoin app code source to handle external storage which is really not ideal. How does the Bitcoin app store its data ? Does it support external storage path …

I’ve gone through these steps and could use some help. I copied some files to 2 folders on an external drive. I mounted to a folder in ~/umbrel/data/storage/ because this is where the downloads folder is in the File Browser app and I want to be able to browse the contents of the drive in the GUI. Th…

Update. If I put fstab back to how it was and use the command sudo mount /dev/sdb2 ~/umbrel/data/storage/Plex then I can see my folders and files that are on the external drive in terminal. However, they don’t appear in File Browser or in Plex. I’m considering using the Umbrel for a combined Bitcoi…

Still trying to get this to work. The external drive that I’m connecting is formatted as ExFAT. I originally used the command echo "/dev/disk/by-partuuid/de43612a-6adc-48e6-b7b8-4c2efa68b097 ~/umbrel/data/storage/Plex auto rw,user,auto 0 0" | sudo tee --append /etc/fstab , following the directions a…

I finally got it working with some help from ChatGPT. In the process of getting this to work I installed an NVME drive into my mini PC. After partitioning and creating the filesystem on the drive, here are the commands I used: Backup fstab: sudo cp /etc/fstab /etc/fstab.bak Create the folder wher…

Maybe this can help: HOW-TO Using 2 SDDs in umbrellos (in a simple and practical way)

That did help. Thank you. I got as far as the drives mounted to the folders. But couldn’t really get anything working past that. I think I’ll wait and see what happens with the new Files feature from 1.4 beta.

So I managed to get it working with the new Files feature. I added these lines to /etc/fstab: UUID=6792-FAFF /home/umbrel/umbrel/home/Downloads/Plex/ exfat defaults,nofail,x-systemd.device-timeout=10 0 0 UUID=EFBE-307C /home/umbrel/umbrel/home/NVME exfat defaults,nofail 0 0 /home/umbrel/umbrel/home…

Unofficial Guide: How to add more storage

Support and Troubleshooting

Hoby March 13, 2026, 10:33pm 26

Considering the number of community members who want to use multiple drives with Umbrel, it seems to me like it should be a HIGH PRIORITY to get this included into the web UI.

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