Can't create or write into the data directory :(

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Hello,
I get the error:
Can’t create or write into the data directory

I know there are already a few posts out there about this topic, but I was never able to resolve the problem after looking through most of them.

I want to install Nextcloud of a Raspberry Pi 4 where Ubuntu 21.04 is installed.
My plan is to place to the data directory on an external drive. The drive is formatted as ext4.
I already tried to apply these commands:
sudo chown -R www-data:www-data /media/user/Lexar/Nextcloud
sudo chmod -R 755 /media/user/Lexar/Nextcloud/
sudo chmod -R g+rwx /media/user/Lexar/Nextcloud/
and the directory does belong to www-data,
but still my efforts were to no avail.

After failing miserably for many long hours to resolve this issue,
I would be quite grateful for any help.
Since I am very new to Linux would be extra thankful for easy to understand explanation and maybe even what certain commands do, so I can learn to resolve such errors better my self.

Thank you in advance!

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You need to adjust config.php as well

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I edited the config.php, but it does not help.

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How did you mount the external drive?

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The drive is connected per USB.

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How did you mount it?

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I’m sorry if this reply won’t be helpful, too.
It’s just, that I find the concept of “mount a disk” still strange, since I have only begun recently to move away from Windows.
I only connected the disk per USB and formatted it to ext4. Now the directory of the disk is /media/user/Lexar/
Do I have to necessarily mount it manually to work with Nextcloud?

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Add the mount point to /etc/fstab and mount it as user www-data

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You just made my day!!!
After so many days not understanding WHY… trying out all complicated stuff, and making sure www-data owns everything etc, this little remark of yours simply worked.
THANK YOU!