When using drive manager the option to move user data to another drive the only option is to move it for user dietpi.
I have created another non-root account for myself. Should I have just stuck with using dietpi or is there a way I can move the user data folder to a another partition?
Related can I/should I remove dietpi as a user if i continue to use my new account? Will this cause issues with groups?
Hi,
many thanks for your report. Are you talking about /mnt/dietpi_userdata?? Probably there is a misunderstanding. This is not a home directory of user dietpi. It’s the global directory to store majority of dietpi application data. Moving this will be fine. There is no need to move single user directories or to delete user dietpi, which btw is not wise as some application relay on this user.
Thank you Joulinar, yes I was talking about /mnt/dietpi_userdata.
So, can /mnt/dietpi_userdata be moved to the same partition as rootfs and would you recommend that?
yes that should be possible
one thing that stepped into my mind. If you moved entire rootFS, your user data directory should be located on HDD already.
Usually this is the way to go to transfer entire rootFS to HDD/SSD
https://dietpi.com/forum/t/services-failing-after-swapping-backup-drives/3869/6
Thanks again, I moved it to the same partition as rootfs via the drive manager.
No errors reported so I assume it has all gone well.
Updating this - I was thinking that I had, after a few attempts, managed a good base install of DietPi on my Odroid.
So I set about installing some of the services I want to run and received an error when trying to install Syncthing and I think it’s related to the above move of my dietpi_userdata folder
*towards the end of the installation process just prior to being asked to reboot.
DietPi-Software
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Mode: Configuring Syncthing: backup and sync server with web interface
11:30:59 WARNING: Failed to generate config and keys: mkdir /mnt/dietpi_userdata/syncthing: permission denied
sed: can't read /mnt/dietpi_userdata/syncthing/config.xml: No such file or directory
sed: can't read /mnt/dietpi_userdata/syncthing/config.xml: No such file or directory
sed: can't read /mnt/dietpi_userdata/syncthing/config.xml: No such file or directory
[ SUB1 ] DietPi-Services > dietpi_controlled
[ OK ] DietPi-Services | dietpi_controlled : redis-server
[ OK ] DietPi-Services | dietpi_controlled : mariadb
[ OK ] DietPi-Services | dietpi_controlled : php7.3-fpm
[ OK ] DietPi-Services | dietpi_controlled : lighttpd
[ OK ] DietPi-Services | dietpi_controlled : syncthing
[ OK ] DietPi-Services | dietpi_controlled : netdata
[ OK ] DietPi-Services | dietpi_controlled : cron
[ OK ] DietPi-Survey | Purging survey data
DietPi-Software
─────────────────────────────────────────────────────
Mode: Installation completed
After rebooting, running > synching produces
jon@Odroid:~$ syncthing
-bash: syncthing: command not found
Permissions for /mnt/dietpi_userdata
jon@Odroid:/mnt$ ls -al
total 16
drwxr-xr-x 5 root root 4096 May 12 11:51 .
drwxr-xr-x 21 root root 4096 May 11 10:18 ..
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 May 11 11:26 data
drwxr-xr-x 9 root root 4096 May 11 22:53 dietpi_userdata
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 0 May 12 11:54 odroid_data
Shouldn’t /mnt/dietpi_userdata be owned by dietpi?
Yes the permissions are incorrect. I guess you copied the data manually, probably as you followed the YouTube tutorial you used to move rootFS.
This is how permissions should looks like
root@DietPi3:/mnt# ls -la
total 24
drwxr-xr-x 6 root root 4096 May 12 10:48 .
drwxr-xr-x 30 root root 4096 May 12 02:31 ..
drwxrwxr-x 6 dietpi dietpi 4096 May 12 02:20 dietpi_userdata
drwxrwxr-x 2 dietpi dietpi 4096 Jan 7 23:35 ftp_client
drwxrwxr-x 2 dietpi dietpi 4096 Jan 7 23:35 nfs_client
drwxrwxr-x 2 dietpi dietpi 4096 Jan 7 23:35 samba
root@DietPi3:/mnt#
OK,
I thought I had fixed my permissions problems but they persist.
I am still getting these errors when trying to install Syncthing
─────────────────────────────────────────────────────
Mode: Configuring Syncthing: backup and sync server with web interface
15:44:41 WARNING: Failed to generate config and keys: mkdir /mnt/dietpi_userdata/syncthing: permission denied
sed: can't read /mnt/dietpi_userdata/syncthing/config.xml: No such file or directory
sed: can't read /mnt/dietpi_userdata/syncthing/config.xml: No such file or directory
sed: can't read /mnt/dietpi_userdata/syncthing/config.xml: No such file or directory
[ SUB1 ] DietPi-Services > dietpi_controlled
[ OK ] DietPi-Services | dietpi_controlled : redis-server
[ OK ] DietPi-Services | dietpi_controlled : mariadb
[ OK ] DietPi-Services | dietpi_controlled : php7.3-fpm
[ OK ] DietPi-Services | dietpi_controlled : lighttpd
I would love some advice on how to rectify.
Here’s permissions for the user data folder
jon@Odroid:~$ ls -al /mnt/dietpi_userdata
total 36
drwxrwxr-x 9 jon root 4096 May 11 22:53 .
drwxr-xr-x 5 root root 4096 May 12 11:51 ..
drwxrwxr-x 2 dietpi dietpi 4096 May 11 15:12 downloads
drwxrwxr-x 2 dietpi dietpi 4096 May 11 15:12 Music
drwxrwxr-x 5 jon mysql 4096 May 13 15:47 mysql
drwxrwxr-x 5 jon www-data 4096 May 11 23:00 nextcloud_data
drwxrwxr-x 2 dietpi dietpi 4096 May 11 15:12 Pictures
drwxrwxr-x 2 dietpi dietpi 4096 May 11 22:53 syncthing_data
drwxrwxr-x 2 dietpi dietpi 4096 May 11 15:12 Video
I guess you would need to create directory syncthing manually with similar permissions as syncthing_data