Unofficial Guide: How to add more storage

Support and Troubleshooting
21

Thanks for the instruction, love it.

22

hello help please
when i enter sudo mount command i got
/home/umbrel/umbrel/home/local-disk: mount(2) system call failed: Not a directory
What I did wrong?

And I also have empty directory
/home/umbrel/umbrel/external/

23

Well, as the error message says, itā€™s like you entered a path which is not a directory (does not exist or is a file?). Please paste the full command you entered and the full response.
And check the previous steps (e.g. sudo lsblk ):

# Check your drive name (look for sdb, sdc, etc. - it will be the size of your new drive)
# My drive is named 'Untitled' ĀÆ\_(惄)_/ĀÆ
sudo lsblk
24

Hi there! I think I seriously screwed something upā€¦

I followed the steps exactly as outlined in djtony707ā€™s guide (Iā€™m attempting to add my external HDD as extra storage to my Plex server), and after a second restart from the web GUI, now all of a sudden my Umbrel is hung in emergency mode, saying the root user is locked out.

It restarted fine at first, after following djtony707ā€™s steps, the Storage folder with all the app redirects seemed to show up as expected. However, I didnā€™t see the total storage updated in UmbrelOS (just the on-board storage as before I connected the external HDD), and wanted to start tinkering with that to see why. I restarted again from the UmbrelOS Settings UI, and the restart dialog just hung on the ā€œRestarting, donā€™t close or refreshā€ page. I didnā€™t close that page or refresh it or anything (in fact, itā€™s still open).

When I went to check the system itself on its monitor, I saw that drive mounting had failed:
[FAILED] Failed to mount home-umbrel-umbrel-home-Storage.mount - home/umbrel/umbrel/Storage.
Thereā€™s more to that one, but thatā€™s the gist of itā€“ it directs to systemctl status. Under that is:
[DEPEND] Dependency failed for local.fs-target - Local File Systems

Looks like everything else reports OK. Unfortunately, now itā€™s stuck in ā€œEmergency Modeā€ and says that it cannot open console because root user is locked. What do I do? Pressing ā€œEnter to continueā€ as it says simply loops me back around to the same ā€œYou are in emergency modeā€ dialog.

If you have a moment today, Iā€™d really appreciate any input on how to fix this.Thanks in advance!

25

This fstab entry style worked for me too, without the pain of figuring out how to add a PARTUUID without risking data loss.

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.