Major head scratching going on ATM, Starting right off with the most basic setup.
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So more questions to be asked . . .
I'm not sure whether you just share your experience or also asking help. So i'll just mention few things,
1. To format drive, set it's mount point and permission, i usually just use GUI application (such as GNOME disk utility). See
https://askubuntu.com/a/1407682.
2. Based on PDF you shared a week ago, your Chromebook have 64GB or 128GB storage. It should be more than enough to download and store application you need.
Thanks ABC - its a bit of both really [I realise what I am experiencing ATM is Linux related and not
Bitcoin related so I dont really want this thread to turn into "hey guys how do I save in the fstab editor?"
because there would be soooo many questions.]
1. Drive is formatted to ext4 and partitioned
Its the mounting I cant seem to do.
2. I'm trying to set the drive up so that both Fulcrum and BitcoinCore download directly to it.
from what I read from one of the links above Fulcrum is about 110gb, I would rather have that
on the external drive.
the instructions I am using are as follows:
AI Overview
To automatically download to an external SSD on Debian, you must first auto-mount the SSD,
then configure the system to use the SSD as the download directory for your applications. For example,
for your web browser, you'd go into its settings and change the download location from your internal drive
to a folder on the mounted SSD. For other applications, you may need to set a new download directory
within their individual settings.
Here are the general steps to achieve this:
1. Identify the SSD and your desired mount point:
Open the Disks utility or use the lsblk command in the terminal to identify your external SSD and its partition.
Decide where you want it to be mounted, such as /mnt/my_external_drive.
2. Create a mount point folder (if it doesn't exist):
Open a terminal and enter sudo mkdir /mnt/my_external_drive to create the directory, replacing my_external_drive with your chosen folder name.
3. Set up automatic mounting using systemd-mount or fstab:
For systemd-mount: You can use systemd-mount to create a temporary mount point that will also mount on startup, which is simpler than manually editing fstab.
For fstab (more permanent):
Open the fstab file with a text editor: sudo nano /etc/fstab.
Add a line like this, replacing the placeholders with your SSD's information: UUID=YOUR_SSD_UUID /mnt/my_external_drive ext4 defaults,nofail 0 2. (You can find your SSD's UUID using lsblk -f in the terminal.)
Save and exit the editor.
4. Configure your applications:
Open your browser's settings: and change the default download location to your new SSD folder.
Open settings for other applications: like torrent clients or file managers and do the same.
5. Verify the setup:
Restart your computer: to confirm the SSD mounts automatically.
Try downloading a file: to ensure it saves to the external SSD.
It looks really straight forward - but for myself who is not familiar with code or Linux I find I am
in way over my head.
I find I have to "research" every little instruction and I dont know what I am doing really.
I.E "Open the fstab file with a text editor: sudo nano /etc/fstab" - yea thats fine, when I open
it there is no other text there so I dont know if I should be just adding a line of code to that blank
window or if I need to take another step to place the code at the end of existing code -
so I have to do more research to this effect and I'm not getting it and its very slow.
I.E "Save and exit the editor." - a simple action like Save means I need to research how to do that
because its not an option in the fstab window - lol
I'm guessing what I am trying to do is maybe a 5 minute set of tasks for someone familiar
with Linux, I'm a good 10 hours into this now - which is a bit worrying
I can imagine some of you are saying i need to abandon this especially if i am struggling on the first rung of the ladder!Thanks for the GNOME disk utility link, I'll check it out
I wont post any more until I figure it out . . . so we can move on to the Bitcoin related install . . .
