How to configure an external USB drive with NextcloudPi

[johndoe0815]

I wrote down in a separate thread how I got things working so far:

How to move with Nextcloudpi from a Raspberry Pi to Proxmox

Hi all, after hours of painful lessons I was successful and like to give something back to the community, as I could not find a proper tutorial on this so far. So far I had NextcloudPi running on a Raspberry Pi 3b with an USB HDD attached, containing the files as well as the database. I have started with Proxmox and wanted to move ncp on this too, for better performance and then also getting rid of the additional rpi. Installation of ncp in a container works like a charm with just the single…