First off Debian can be run headless as well so that’s a moot distinction.
But if you already have Ubuntu running HA then I wouldn’t mess with it and just go from there. If you are using the machine for anything other than just running HA the you are already not “officially supported” anyway.
The “it’s not officially supported” thing sounds way more ominous than it actually is. I’ve been running HA now for over 3 years and have only asked for “official support” a few times. Two times were on the discord channel and it never helped me at all either time. I suppose you could get “official support” by submitting bug reports when you find them but I typically don’t find the bugs soon enough to have needed to do that aside from a few times and unless a lot of people are experiencing those same bugs it won’t get touched either.
Most of the support you will get is going to be from people here on the forums.
The bottom line is stay with what you have and you’ll likely be fine for a long time to come. And if you get into trouble come here and ask (after doing your own research a bit to see if it’s already been asked/answered first of course ).
Don’t have real idea of the amount of storage you need.
Do you currently have 1TB and want another 3TB or do you have 16TB and need 100TB more. The context is missing and after some point looking at hardware options should be considered so I add that option for your further consideration
That guide is almost a year old and, considering how rapidly the Home Assistant project evolves, should be considered to be outdated. Minimally, it uses outdated terminology.
Home Assistant Supervised appears to be the installation method you’ve used and, for others who wish to use the same method, the latest installation guide can be found in the Community Guides section.
Can you elaborate on what you mean? Because, on the surface, it sounds like you want to know the command for copying files (cp in linux) but surely it must be more a more complex question that that.
Is there an official communication from the devs about that? Meaning that Debian will be the OS of choice for Home Assistant Supervised? I’ve been waiting to hear officially before I start rebuilding my instance.
Unless you plan on running a completely vanilla install of Debian 10 with nothing else other than HA installed, you will be considered unsupported. I wouldn’t stress too much about needing to rebuild your instance if it’s working well for you currently.
I mean I want to use that particular mounted drive for storage. I don’t want to have all data being uploaded to the main drive where I have Ubuntu Server Installed and HA running.
Again this question would be based on if I have chosen the correct installation method. So just to reiterate, I want a system that runs Home Assistant and should also have access to the second drive for NAS. I hope that makes sense. (I would do a windows FTP server and just have one drive for that but I don’t and can’t leave my windows PC switched on at all times).
When you create a mount point in Linux, it appears as a directory to all applications. In other words, the application is not aware of, for example /my_nas represents a directory on an internal drive, externally attached drive, or a drive in another device on the network. In other words, the mounted drive is “transparent” to the application. So if you install Home Assistant Supervised on Debian (or Ubuntu or some other Linux distro) you are able to mount drives and make them accessible, and “transparent”, to applications.
So that’s a requirement you overlooked to mention since the beginning of this thread which began with:
Any drive can be unmounted. However, unmounting and walking away with it to another computer is not really how one envisions a storage device used by an FTP server. Perhaps you should explain the details of your requirements.
You said you wish to pull out the drive and “connect it to any PC”. Do you mean a Windows PC? I assume you know that the storage device’s file system (default is Ext4) on the Linux-based server will not be in Windows’ preferred NTFS format?
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