Advice on additional volumes on host OS
I am running on a 1 liter PC (Dell Optiplex 7060) and I have multiple volumes. The OS and root partition are on a smaller NVMe, and thus far, everything is here. I also have a 1TB SATA SSD that is mounted as /data. Finally, I plan on plugging in a USB 3 external drive that is 8TB and had all my media and some other stuff. I was hoping to make this available to installed apps like Jellyfin.
My question is how I should use the /data partition. My initial thought was to use it for the container mounts and any non-ephemeral data for the containers. However, I am completely new to docker, and my only experience is with VMs and LXC containers, both of which have permanence for their volumes. So I don't know if my idea is really on track or not. I welcome any advice on what I should be doing with the /data volume. Currently the only apps I have installed are IT-Tools and Tailscale. So if it easier to delete the apps than migrate data, I am perfectly fine with that. I would like to know that folder structure I should create on the 1TB SSD mounted as /data, and what config files and/or settings need to be changed to make use of it.
Thank you for your assistance.
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Anyone?! Buller?!
Hello, sorry for not replying but I can't understand what you are trying to do
Do you want to migrate your apps from LXCs to runtipi and store app data in /data
I'm not really sure what in tipi uses the most storage and is worth shifting to the large SATA drive. I also don't know what I would need to change outside of moving the files and folders themselves so that the system can still find and use them. I just don't wanna fill my small NVMe when I have a secondary drive that is quite large. If most of what would be shifted exists under one specific directory, I could change the mount from
/data to whatever the parent directory of that tree is to make it easier, but I don't know what would be effective. I am not using this machine for anything other than Runtipi, so there should not be any conflict with anything outside of the tipi paradigm of how things are setup.