Unofficial Guide: How to add more storage

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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/storage/drive1) so it’s next to the downloads folder. Installed apps like File Browser can access more easily the new mounted location

  • I applied another set of permissions at step 4.: sudo chmod -R 775 umbrel/data/storage/drive1/ (not sure it is necessary but I had some issue allowing umbrel user with chown command)

  • I edited the docker-compose.yml file of plex with (please see the full tutorial, it will be more comprehensive):

    • sudo nano ~/umbrel/app-data/plex/docker-compose.yml
    • Locate the volume entry for the app’s configuration and data, and add a new volume mapping for the external drive: volumes: - ${UMBREL_ROOT}/data/storage/drive1:/drive1

  • Don’t forget to restart your apps to take the new mounted location into account

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