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Chris wrote:
Welcome, and no need to apologise. This trips up a lot of people on Windows. Here's what's happening. On Windows, SparkBox runs inside a small Linux machine, and that machine keeps everything, including its default media folder, inside one virtual disk file. The file sits on your 8TB drive, but the size you're seeing belongs to that virtual disk, not to the drive. You don't need to grow it. Point SparkBox's media folder straight at the drive instead, and the media apps (Jellyfin included) can use the whole 8TB. 1. Find the drive from the Linux side. Windows drives show up under /mnt by letter, so drive D: is /mnt/d. In the SparkBox terminal run: ls /mnt If your drive's letter isn't in the list, run wsl --shutdown in PowerShell, reopen the terminal and look again. 2. Make a media folder on that drive. Leave spaces out of the name, because SparkBox refuses a media folder with a space in it. For example, if the drive is D: sudo mkdir -p /mnt/d/Media 3. In the dashboard, open Settings → Media folders → Open media settings. That opens the media settings in the classic dashboard. Set Media Root to /mnt/d/Media (with your own letter) and save. SparkBox restarts the media apps on the new folder by itself. If one stays stopped, run sudo sparkbox up media. 4. Check it with sudo sparkbox doctor and look at the Media Storage section. Anything you've already downloaded stays in the old folder. If there's something there you want to keep, reply here and we'll help you bring it across.