Where are my files?

🚧 Installation
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Hello,

I want to run NC in a Linux container managed with Proxmox.
The installation run nice dans the data dir is under /home/nextcloud/www/data
And everything is OK, I upload files in subdirectories of /home/nextcloud/www/data
the user running NC is “nextcloud”

Now I re-install NC but I want to store data files in a shared folder.
I have another LXC with Samba and a shared folder. This folder is on a NTFS hard disk
I mount the shared folder in /home/nextcloud/data and the user “nextcloud” can read and write in this folder and everithing is nice.
I setup NC and NC ask me where is data folder and I put /home/nextcloud/data

And the problems begin…
First NC create the first user but not in /home/nextcloud/data … and I dont know where !!
In the shared folder, there is nothing !! no files, no directories …

I upload a big file (1.2Go) and the file is in NC, I can read it (it’s a video)
But the file is not in /home/nextcloud/data !!
I reboot the container, in NC I still see the file …but I don’t know where is the file !!

Does NC support that the data directory is a mounting of a samba share?
How to configure NC or system to write data files to my shered ntfs disk ?

NextCloud : version 15.0.0
Container is CentOS 7
PHP 7.2
httpd 2.4

2

The location of the data directory is configured via the datadirectory entry in your config.php. The default is the data directory in the installation folder of nextcloud.

3

Yes I know that,

And at the 2nd setup (I erase 1st one) , I put /home/nextcloud/data as data directory and the config.php have this value for datadirectory field.

4

Very similar situation here, altough I didn’t use container, I’m using bare metal Install with Cent OS 8

5

I just found it on /nextcloud/data, what is a really anoying, since Its consuming OS partition space

6

@rafaelvico you can move all the data on another folder/ disk and change the path of your data directory in your config.php
sudo rsync -av /nextcloud/data /… ( replace … by the path you want to copy the data. Make sure the data are correctly copied and after delete /nextcloud/data folder)