[SOLVED] Can I Use My new LVM Data FOlder for Nextcloud Data Folder & Storage?

While installing Nextcloud onto my Ubuntu 18.04LTS Server, after opening my browser and going to http://my-ip-address/nextcloud , where it asks for the location of the data folder, is it safe to point it to a data folder I created on my LVM ?

I have no personal experience, but I don't see why not. I suspect that many cloud servers running on CentOS and RHEL use LVM file systems.

This article certainly implies that you can: http://www.techspacekh.com/installin...entos-7rhel-7/

And if this has the potential to grow, one day you will really appreciate you used LVM.
Just do it.

Thanks, frankbell & syg00
I already have 2.7TB Data to put on it within 2 years will definitely be needing to add more, that's why I really wanted to build the foundation so to speak correctly. I wasn't sure if I had to chmod the drive, what else needed to be done to allow the drive to work correctly with nextcloud or how the big boys do it, after checking out and studying the link above, I believe I have everything setup. I will try this tomorrow, just recovered from a bad fstab entry for my LVM, ended up having to boot from the live media and fixing it, now it is booting up and working again.

Now getting Error: Can't create or write into the data directory /mnt/nextcloud/data, what is the best way to fix this ? the data folder is where the 4TB LVM is mounted to, looks like I have a permission problem, seems Like I only have root access, when I check the properties for the data folder it shows it has 4TB, so it's mounted correctly to the LVM, but what is the best workaround for the permissions issue ?

I noticed one of the prerequisites of installing nextcloud was to Update the ownership of files inside the NextCloud root directory so that web server can write data into it.

sudo chown -R www-data:www-data /var/www/html/nextcloud/

Do I need to simply : sudo chown -R www-data:www-data /mnt/nextcloud/data ?

If so, do I need to unmount the LVM drive the data folder is mounted to, before using that command ?

After doing some homework on this and using Master Ubuntu Server 2nd edition PDF Book, I chose to do it this way.

1. sudo umount /mnt/NextCloud/data
2. cd /mnt/NextCloud
3. ls , then sudo rm -r data
4. ls , to make sure data file is gone.
5. change fstab mount to: /mnt/NextCloud
6. sudo mount /mnt/NextCloud , or sudo mount -a , make sure it mounted.
7. cd /mnt/NextCloud
8. ls -l only lost+found should be in there
9. sudo mkdir /mnt/NextCloud/data
10. ls -l check it out
11. copy anything from original /var/www/html/nextcloud/data to /mnt/NextCloud/data , for testing purposes.

12. sudo chown www-data:www-data /mnt/NextCloud/data
13. ls -l check it out, notice permissions changed.
14. Restart.
15. Check mount point, cd /mnt/NextCloud , ls -l check out permissions on data folder. If permissions are good, install Next Cloud. and tell it the data folder is located at /mnt/NextCloud/data

it just worked...