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    Configure PhotoPrism To Use An External Drive

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    topic: 🖥️ Tech
    links: Use an external SSD for your PhotoPrism instance
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    This post explains how to configure your own PhotoPrism instance to use an external hard drive.

    To use an external drive in Photoprism, you need to first mount the drive and configure it to mount automatically.

    Afterwards, you can configure PhotoPrism accordingly.

    1. Make sure the drive is mounted correctly, by running
    sudo lsblk -o UUID,NAME,FSTYPE,SIZE,MOUNTPOINT,LABEL,MODEL
    • you should see the mount point
    1. edit the PhotoPrism configuration:
    sudo vi docker-compose.yml
    1. under volumes, edit the originals and storage destination:
      - "/mnt/photoprism/originals:/photoprism/originals"
  - "/mnt/photoprism/storage:/photoprism/storage"
    1. you can also specify subfolders as mentioned in the comments of the file