External Drive Help

[gculbert70]

I have installed Owncloud 9.0.3 on my Raspberry Pi 3 running Debian. I added an external USB drive and mounted it as /media/NASDRIVE and I can write to it but I can not get owncloud to see it. I added it as an external drive after downloading the app and set it up as NASDRIVE and used the id - 503ECC223ECC02C8 but if I click on it it just returns to the root. If I try to set it up on the intial wizard it says it failed to write to it. I am not sure what to do but seems like some sort of permissions issue?

[hodyroff]

Sounds like a Linux issue, not an ownCloud issue. When you can mount it in Linux correctly, ownCloud can work with the file system ...

[gculbert70]

I would disagree because I can access it fine in Linux but ownCloud can not access it so it is some sort of permissions issue with ownCloud that is missing.

[anon64530626]

Accessing on command line (probably also with a different user) is something completely different then accessing it from PHP. Have a look at the following FAQ for every info you need how to configure your PHP environment (and so ownCloud) to access external storages with the correct permissions:

Can't create or write into the data directory / Can't write into config directory! / Data directory (/mnt/data) is invalid

Problem You're getting one of the following error message: Can't create or write into the data directory Can't write into config directory! Data directory (/mnt/data) is invalid (/mnt/data is an example here) Solutions The messages basically means that ownCloud can't access and write into the mentioned directories (as the messages are telling). There are a few issues which are showing up quite often: Missing permissions You have permission issues that the users which is running your…