Help binding external drive - what's the PATH?

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Hoping you can help newbie with limited programming skill. I’ve got pretty far just following guides though.

My system is a windows system, running NC via Docker. I also have portainer installed.

The Ask: Add an external usb drive.

I’ve mounted the USB drive as a folder under c:/nextcloud/data. I want bind the container to volume to this path. However, I don’t know how to find the path I need to enter in the portainer.

In the NC terminal, I tried the command “mount” “lsblk” hoping to see the path and got the results below, but it doesn’t show the path I want, I don’t believe

Hoping someone can guide how to get the path I need or correct how to mount the drive if needed. I feel like I am close but need a little help.

Cheers

nc mount
nc mount718×503 39.2 KB

mount
mount1096×446 163 KB

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You have an extra layer to consider here because the USB drive is not connected to the container itself.

So probably the thing to do is add it as a volume mapping to your docker container (this gives it the path you’re looking for), and then attach it in Nextcloud as local external storage.

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Can you explain how t do this? thanks

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No, I’m afraid I can’t. I haven’t used Portainer, or Docker on Windows.

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Thx…so close and yet so far