Question
Using Block Storage with Nextcloud: Can't move data directory
- Posted on October 24, 2020
- Ubuntu 20.04Block Storage
Asked by xr1s
Hi DO community,
For the life of me, I can’t figure out how to move the data folder for a snap Nextcloud I installed on a Droplet. I have 150GB of Block Storage that I want to use for the data folder. The little guideline I made and the steps I took:
lsblk mkfs -t ext4 /dev/sda mkdir -p /mnt/nextcloud_data mount -o discard,defaults /dev/sda /mnt/nextcloud_data lsblk sudo snap connect nextcloud:removable-media nano /var/snap/nextcloud/current/nextcloud/config/config.php sudo snap stop nextcloud sudo mv /var/snap/nextcloud/common/nextcloud/data /mnt/nextcloud_data sudo snap start nextcloud
In config, I setup data directory as /mnt/nextcloud_data …and now I get:
Your data directory is invalid Ensure there is a file called “.ocdata” in the root of the data directory
Any ideas on what went wrong?
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Hello, @xr1s
You can probably refer to this article from Next Cloud’s forum:
I will recommend you to first manually create the .ocdata file and try again before removing the users and re-create them from scratch.
In order to create the file, you can simply use
touch:Regards, Alex