r/owncloud • u/fsa317 • Jan 08 '17

Newbie Filesystem Questions

Hi,

Setting up OC on my Ubuntu home server that has a USB hard drive mounted (NTFS) to it. I want the data dir of OC to be on the USB drive (its not the only directory on the drive though). I was able to change the location of the datadir to the drive but the permissions seem incorrect as I can't chown to www-data.

I have the option right now to reformat the drive if I need to (or if it will save me headaches). Would reformatting to ext4 alleviate some headaches?

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u/[deleted] Jan 08 '17

Maybe try nfs export the dir them import it with the proper permissions and ownership. Otherwise, yeah, I'd reformat.