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RN214: owncloud installation / upgrade
Dear Netgear community, I use netgear products for several years, but now I'm the owner of an RN214 NAS (already did the upgrade to OS 6.5). Of course I know basic information about networks, but...
Espacially I mean this solution: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_C9XFWWLVlw
Why does this force problems and why is it a problem due to conflicts with OS partition? The owncloud is visible as the one installed as app. Where is the difference? Is the shown update procedure for a app version the same like shown in the video?
So long as you install it in such a way that you don't store stuff on the 4GB OS partition that should be on the data volume you should be fine. However the vanilla Debian package by default would store stuff on the root volume that shouldn't be there. 4GB is plenty of space for the OS and configuration, but you can quickly fill it if you put stuff on it that shouldn't be stored there.
With the app from rnxtras you would be getting something already configured to store things in appropriate places.Ok, I understand. I am already in contact with whocares, but nevertheless of course I want to learn something. How would a configuration work or what would I have to do to avoid storing the cloud data in the OS partitition? Where is this partition respectivelly how can I see that the data is stored there or not there? Or is there any step for step installation guide beside "using an app" for the installation of owncloud on ReadyNAS OS6? or is the way shown in my posted video the 'correct' one?
You can see the mounts for the data volume if you look via SSH.
With the default volume 'data' everything in /data, /apps and /home would be on the data volume, as well as any mounts in /var/ftp of stuff on the data volume. Everything else would be on the OS partition or temporarily stored in RAM, except for what's on USB disks.
So apps should store as much as possible on the data volume and as little as possible elsewhere.
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