How to mount an existing usb drive without formatting?

[Jian_Wu]

I have setup a new nextcloud running on my Raspberry Pi Debian OS. On the raspberry pi I attached a usb harddrive that previously was used in an earlier nextcloud project. I therefore cannot format the usb harddrive, since I need to make the existing data on my usb hard drive available.

I remembered that before when I used next cloud, it was possible to specify a mount point. However in the current Nextcloud version 25 I no longer can find a mount point in the settings.

Nextcloud version (eg, 20.0.5): 25
Operating system and version (eg, Ubuntu 20.04): Raspbian version 11

[anon75456558]

Here you go. Mounting is done at the filesystem level first.

Mounting an external drive using UUID and fstab | Linux admin junior

Create a mountpoint for the external drive for ncdata sudo mkdir /media/ncp Find UUID of external drive ls -lh /dev/disk/by-uuid/ (Mine looks like this) total 0 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 15 Aug 11 09:10 29075e46-f0d4-44e2-a9e7-55ac02d6e6cc -> …/…/mmcblk0p2 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 Aug 11 09:10 35e98a80-8895-41f4-93e7-39940a1fda70 -> …/…/sda1 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 15 Aug 11 09:10 9304-D9FD -> …/…/mmcblk0p1 To add a ligne to /etc/fstab sudo nano /etc/fstab add line for your drive (cop…

@Jian_Wu

However in the current Nextcloud version 25 I no longer can find a mount point in the settings.

Depends on if you installed NextcloudPi, or whatever other method. You notably skipped filling out the support form. Hopefully the guide above answers your question.