FAT32 Drives in OC 9.1.0 As External Storage

[RWwarner]

Hi everyone, I'm running the latest stable release of OC on my Raspberry Pi model B with Apache 2.4 and Debian. I have been trying to use some flash drives as external storage until I can acquire an external hard drive. They are formatted as FAT32 drives so that I can remove them from the OC server and view the files on a WIndows PC if necessary, I understand that FAT32 is not a native Linux filesystem, however I am reluctant to format the drives as ext4 because I want the cross-compatibility that FAT32 offers. The problems I am experiencing are the OC server telling me that I do not have permission to upload or create files here, even though I have admin permissions. I believe this is due to the FAT32 permissions, because it will not allow me to change the permissions of the drives to www-data. Does anybody know what to do?

[anon30676603]

Hi,

the following FAQ should contain most of the infos about such external storages:

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…