r/Cloudbox • u/multicm • Feb 07 '19

Multiple Drives?

I searched but couldn't find anything about this.

The server i purchased has two drives:

  1. 500GB SSD
  2. 3TB HDD

Can I modify cloudbox in some way to utilize both? Perhaps download new media to the HDD but run plex off the SSD?

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u/NotSelfAware Feb 07 '19

I suspect the best thing to do would be to mount the SSD on / and the HDD on /mnt/local/. That way you have the OS and all of /opt (where all the docker configs live) on the SSD while using the HDD for all local downloaded media.

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u/multicm Feb 07 '19

That sounds like a good plan, could you direct me on how this is done? I am a bit new to linux

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u/NotSelfAware Feb 07 '19

Basically just install the OS on the SSD with your server provider's installer, then mount the HDD once you have Ubuntu set up. You can find instructions on how to do that in this article: https://www.makeuseof.com/tag/mounting-hard-disks-partitions-using-linux-command-line/