Quota issues

[whositwhatnow]

Is there a way to make an external storage location your primary storage upon login? I am having issues with quotas.

I've set a 500MB quota per user locally but Users use primarily use the external storage.

when they transfer files it says no space left.

[MorrisJobke]

Duplicate of #3343 which was fixed with #3438 in Nextcloud 12.

Just set the folder of the external storage to / 😉

[whositwhatnow]

unfortunately this doesnt work for me. I have SMB share and put / in remote subfolder and log out and log back in, still same result.

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[MorrisJobke]

unfortunately this doesnt work for me. I have SMB share and put / in remote subfolder and log out and log back in, still same result.

Not in the remote subfolder, but in the mount point ;)

[whositwhatnow]

problem is i have multiple shares on the fileserver.

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[MorrisJobke]

problem is i have multiple shares on the fileserver.

What does this mean?

[whositwhatnow]

this is my setup. We have a smb file server with multiple shares. if i put / where the share shoudl be its a permissions error. [cid:4656ffae-ff9f-46f0-b734-76757f78eb95]

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[MorrisJobke]

this is my setup. We have a smb file server with multiple shares. if i put / where the share shoudl be its a permissions error.

You should not put the / as remote subfolder, but where that external storage should be mounted in your nextcloud. 😉

Something like this (see the / in Folder name):