Tutorial request.

Posted by Wulf_Man

I am setting this up on a pc running Ubuntu Server. The PC has a small nvme drive with the OS on it and Sparkbox. There are 2 x 4TB hdd's also in the pc. Is there a tutorial that shows how to map those hdd's so that the media stack will use them instead of downloading to the small nvme drive? If not, is this something that can be done please?

1 replies

Chris wrote:

Yes, absolutely doable — and it's a really common setup, so you haven't done anything wrong. SparkBox keeps all your downloads and your Movies/TV folders in one place, and the knob that decides where is a line called MEDIAROOT in the file /opt/sparkbox/.env. Right now it points at the nvme; you just point it at the big drives instead. Two steps. First, in Ubuntu, mount the two 4TB drives so they show up at a folder (like /mnt/media) — SparkBox can't mount or format drives for you, that's an OS job, and formatting wipes a drive so only do that to empty ones. Then set MEDIAROOT=/mnt/media in that .env file and run sudo sparkbox up media. After that, downloads and your libraries all live on the big drives.