Nextcloud files on another drive

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I have a Nextcloud set up in the following way:

Nextcloud for my permanently accessible data

20 environment.etc.“nextcloud-admin-pass”.text = “…”;
19 services.nextcloud = {
18 enable = true;
17 package = pkgs.nextcloud28;
16 hostName = “192.168.0.5”;
15 maxUploadSize = “200G”;
14 config = {
13 adminpassFile = “/etc/nextcloud-admin-pass”;
12 extraTrustedDomains = [ “mydomain.com” ];
11 };
10 };

Now I found out that my files are all at /dev/sda2/var/lib/nextcloud but I would like to have my nextcloud at /mnt/nvme/nextcloud .

seems simple enough, but I can’t make it and GPT is only suggesting to add “datadirectory” to the configuration.nix where it says that this command is not there.

There is a post tat suggests " Due to systemd hardening and sandboxing, I think it will be easier to just mount your disk at /var/lib/nextcloud ." but I have other things on that disk

if any further info is necessary, please let me know.

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I still think this is true. See below, don’t listen to me.

You could use a bind mount instead to bind a specific subdirectory of that disk.

environment.etc.“nextcloud-admin-pass”.text = “test123”;

Don’t actually do this, you’re storing your password world-readable in the nix store.

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you can use the services.nextcloud.dataDir option to set your data to a desired directory/mountpoint if that’s enough for you

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We learned in the referenced thread that that option doesn’t work as conveniently in practice because of permissions and cgroups, sadly. May be worth revisiting, to be fair, I don’t recall the exact problem, it may have involved ntfs?

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maybe you’re talking about the services.nextcloud.home option which by default points to /var/lib/nextcloud?

I’m using this setup with dataDir being on a dedicated mountpoints literally for years without any issues. In my case it points to a NFS mountpoint to make things more interesting :slight_smile:

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Looks like you’re right, I must be thinking of a different thread: Cannot change home dir / datadir in nextcloud

That mostly looks like there was data from a former installation still lying around and the remount was an incidental fix.

Sorry about the misinformation!