# How to configure an external USB drive with NextcloudPi **URL:** \ **Category:** NextcloudPi Documentation\ **Tags:** 2-configure, configure, ncp\ **Created:** [October 31, 2021, 12:31am UTC](https://help.nextcloud.com/t/how-to-configure-an-external-usb-drive-with-nextcloudpi/126376 "2021-10-31T00:31:17Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 7
**Author:** ![johndoe0815](https://help.nextcloud.com/user_avatar/help.nextcloud.com/johndoe0815/32/46162_2.png) [@johndoe0815](https://help.nextcloud.com/u/johndoe0815)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2022, 5:17pm UTC](https://help.nextcloud.com/t/how-to-configure-an-external-usb-drive-with-nextcloudpi/126376/7 "2022-09-28T17:17:53Z")
Yes, indeed you overwrote my post, you have a log of privileges 😉 But I could get my text from the history like you wrote. That was: I have a CT via [Proxmox Helper Scripts | Proxmox Scripts For Home Automation](https://tteck.github.io/Proxmox/). Nevertheless, I think i would also get my HDD in there as shown in your screenshot, have not tested that but read how to do this. But to @theCalcaholic as said the current datadir of my installation is /var/www/nextcloud/data. From what I meanwhile read I would need to mount the drive to any mount point that I choose (via console input), and then edit the config.php manually to point to that datadir, as for some reason that option is not available in ncp-config? I have an existing HDD from my current RPi installation in BTRFS format that hosts the datadir as well das the NCP database. The database I do not need, the HDD I would in the simplest case like to continue to use in the new proxmox installation. In the worst case I would reinitialize the HDD and copy the data then back from a backup. BTRFS in Proxmox also seems to be not the easiest thing from what I read and also not possible from the GUI: [[SOLVED] - BTRFS mount point in LXC | Proxmox Support Forum](https://forum.proxmox.com/threads/btrfs-mount-point-in-lxc.103787/#post-446723) So if it is easier I might also go with EXT4 instead. As I see in your screenshot that you also added BTRFS I would indeed be interested in your how-to 🙂 --- _[View the full topic](https://help.nextcloud.com/t/how-to-configure-an-external-usb-drive-with-nextcloudpi/126376)._