{"id":1742,"date":"2017-11-17T22:35:54","date_gmt":"2017-11-17T22:35:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.incredigeek.com\/home\/?p=1742"},"modified":"2017-11-17T22:40:16","modified_gmt":"2017-11-17T22:40:16","slug":"add-extra-drive-to-unifi-video-controller","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.incredigeek.com\/home\/add-extra-drive-to-unifi-video-controller\/","title":{"rendered":"Add extra drive to UniFi Video Controller"},"content":{"rendered":"

Find your disk drive using fdisk or some other utility.\u00a0 More info here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

fdisk -l<\/pre>\n
Example:<\/p>\n
steve@ubuntu:~$ sudo fdisk -l\r\nDisk \/dev\/sda: 32 GiB, 34359738368 bytes, 67108864 sectors\r\nUnits: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes\r\nSector size (logical\/physical): 512 bytes \/ 512 bytes\r\nI\/O size (minimum\/optimal): 512 bytes \/ 512 bytes\r\nDisklabel type: dos\r\nDisk identifier: 0xe96d30af\r\n\r\nDevice     Boot    Start      End  Sectors Size Id Type\r\n\/dev\/sda1  *        2048 58720255 58718208  28G 83 Linux\r\n\/dev\/sda2       58722302 67106815  8384514   4G  5 Extended\r\n\/dev\/sda5       58722304 67106815  8384512   4G 82 Linux swap \/ Solaris\r\n\r\n\r\nDisk \/dev\/sdb: 557 GiB, 598074195968 bytes, 1168113664 sectors\r\nUnits: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes\r\nSector size (logical\/physical): 512 bytes \/ 512 bytes\r\nI\/O size (minimum\/optimal): 512 bytes \/ 512 bytes\r\nsteve@ubuntu:~$<\/pre>\n
The drive is the 500GiB drive \/dev\/sdb<\/p>\n
Create a partition on the drive.\u00a0 Warning!\u00a0 Be careful when formatting drives and make sure you don’t format the wrong one!<\/p>\n
echo ';' | sfdisk \/dev\/sdb<\/pre>\n
You should now see the partition when you run fdisk -l again.\u00a0 If you run into issues mounting the drive, try formating the drive with a different utility i.e.(fdisk, cfdisk, gparted etc.)<\/p>\n
steve@ubuntu:~$ sudo fdisk -l\r\nDisk \/dev\/sdb: 557 GiB, 598074195968 bytes, 1168113664 sectors\r\nUnits: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes\r\nSector size (logical\/physical): 512 bytes \/ 512 bytes\r\nI\/O size (minimum\/optimal): 512 bytes \/ 512 bytes\r\nDisklabel type: dos\r\nDisk identifier: 0x717f99ba\r\n\r\nDevice     Boot Start        End    Sectors  Size Id Type\r\n\/dev\/sdb1        2048 1168113663 1168111616  557G 83 Linux   <--New Partition\r\nsteve@ubuntu:~$<\/pre>\n
Create mount point<\/p>\n
mkdir -p \/video\/mount\/point<\/pre>\n
Now mount the partition<\/p>\n
mount \/dev\/sdb1 \/video\/mount\/point<\/pre>\n
Allow unifi-video user to own the mount point<\/p>\n
chown -R video\/mount\/point<\/pre>\n
Add the drive to \/etc\/fstab to auto mount on system bootup.\u00a0 More info here<\/a>.<\/p>\n
Change \/dev\/sdXx to your drive and \/MOUNTLOCATION to your mount location.<\/p>\n
sudo echo \"\/dev\/sdXx \/MOUNTLOCATION ext4 rw,defaults 0 0 \" >> \/etc\/fstab<\/pre>\n
Example:<\/p>\n
sudo echo \"\/dev\/sdb1 \/video\/mount\/point ext4 rw,defaults 0 0 \" >> \/etc\/fstab<\/pre>\n
If you have issues running the above command, you can manually add it to the file with<\/p>\n
sudo vi \/etc\/fstab<\/pre>\n
add the following line to the bottom of the file.\u00a0 Change sdXx to your drive and \/MOUNTLOCATION to the mount location of the drive.<\/p>\n
\/dev\/sdXx \/MOUNTLOCATION ext4 rw,defaults 0 0<\/pre>\n
You can reboot the system to make sure that the drive mounts properly.<\/p>\n
Now you can log into the UniFi Video controller and set the Recording Path by going to Settings>SYSTEM CONFIGURATION>CONFIGURE and set the Recording Path to \/video\/mount\/point<\/p>\n
Tip. In the SYSTEM CONFIGURATION menu you can hover over the Disk and it’ll show you your total amount of recording space.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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