My Home Assistant Green is almost full. I want use the Settings-> Systems → Storage → “Move Data Disk”
to move to a bigger disk on the ha green
Even though i have a 256gb transcend USB ext4 formatted drive mounted as read write and visible under /dev/sda1
Selecting the “Move Data Disk” gives error.
No suitable storage found
There is no suitable external device found. The storage capacity of the external data disk must be larger than the storage capacity of the existing disk
Any ideas on how to get this to work ? Or suggest a workable alternative that runs on home assistant green?
Surely it wouldn’t take much effort to mod the setup in Home Assistant Green to allow moving to it, if its a mounted ext4 drive ??.
I really like the HA Green having it now nearly 12 months, and its a waste of money and increased power use to bin and replace it with a NUC or yellow because it hard locked to 64GB of internal storage when clearly the hardware can handle more storage on the USB port
I don’t want to be constrained (or spend lots of money) ??
Running df (under SSH Terminal,using a Transcend ESD310 256GB USB drive )
Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda1 245023780 8792344 223712220 4% /media/HA-USB
Surely there a way it can be added, or the community might know of a way?
There are ways, but it will likely break your system. If you mount a drive, it becomes part of the filesystem. When you backup, the main HA drive has to contain the whole backup, and if it’s reading from this external drive, it will break the backup, fill up your disk, and crash everything (For instance. Ask me how I know). Therefore, not supported.
It can also cause other problems as well. There are several supported ways to use storage listed in the links I gave you.
it should work. Maybe remove the partitions on the disk first, as /dev/sda should be used, not /dev/sda1
Or maybe it did not work because the disk was already mounted.
