The late, great Caroline Aherne
The cloud is up! Where else would it be, clouds belong in the sky.
oc.digitaltinker.co.uk (edit, a couple of days later, I decided to redo everything and in doing so changed the cloud address to nc.digital tinker.co.uk )
More notes to follow tomorrow. For now, I’m going to bed. Late night geekery seems to be the theme, but at least this time it isn’t 3am
Boutros boutros ghali.
I’ve not started a new post since the next day since it’s about the same geek session. Installing owncloud was pretty straight-forward, as I had done it a couple of times before on my Raspberry Pi; I hardly had to read the instructions.
On completion, I decided to have a go at using the remaining allocated storage space. I set up the first virtual HD with 15GB and I have a 30GB allowance in the free-tier option. A couple of days ago, I made a 2GB virtual drive and set it to swap space just to see that I could, so should have 13GB spare. I decided to try just a simple experiment to start with. All this is done through the Amazon Web Services (AWS) browser interface, by the way.
I shut down the server and enlarged the initial 15 GB HD to 18G and continued to read the instructions. If you’re enlarging a partition that’s boot ‘n’ root, you need to use the AWS interface to virtually unplug your drive from your shutdown server, create a new virtual server, boot it up, virtually hot plug the virtual HD, and resize your partition. I got to the resize-your-partition point then saw the next steps in CLI was more baffling to extend a gpt partition. I thought, sod it. I shutdown virtual server number two, disconnected the first servers drive, plugged it back in to my first server, booted it up, opened the virtual window and tipped the second virtual server in to the virtual canal outside. Virtually.
So now I have 15G partition in an 18G VHD, 2G swap VHD, 10G space. Then I went to bed. Earlier today, I crafted a third VHD, 10G, removed and reinstalled OwnCloud, set it’s data store to the new VHD. Just now, I’ve thought, while it is arsey to extend a booty rooty parti, why not make one 30G drive with swap and OwnCloud partitions.
Are you still reading this? I’ll redo all that partition stuff tomorrow.
One last thought – I’ve just read that OwnCloud has forked – maybe soon I’ll try the new OwnCloud alt, NextCloud.
Bedtime!