I’m trying to figure out how to access the file system of the PureServer. I have NextCloud running but am having trouble understanding it all. When I upload a file from my Mac to Nextcloud, where is the file being stored? Is NextCloud storing my files on my PureServer’s hard drive? I can’t find any file system showing the PureServer hard drive contents where I can manage files, folders, etc that are on my server. I guess I just don’t understand how it works at that level. I understand that the StartOS Services are stored and running on the server, but I’d like to see the file system of my servers’ hard drive. How can I do this?
Everything you run on your server is of course on your own drive. But that pretty much abstracted away.
First by StartOS…
Every service is installed on a data partition on your drive, which is a just a standard file directory tree. Each service runs inside a Docker container and has volumes… a subdirectory on the file system that the container sees as its own disk. Inside that there are more subdirectories and files. Nextcloud has it’s own volume and inside that sit all your files.
Next by Nextcloud…
Much like if you’re using Google Drive or Dropbox… the underlying filesystem isn’t visible to you… lots of what you’re seeing is database entries and metadata. Perhaps less so with Nextcloud because the actual directories do exist in the Nextcloud volume… but certainly with some of the plugins you can run.
There’s absolutely no way within the StartOS GUI to just freely browse the underlying Linux file system. There’s be no reason to and you can’t do anything of use there other than break your server. If you really want to though, you can use the command line to SSH into the server and browse files there.
https://docs.start9.com/0.3.5.x/user-manual/ssh
Thank you for your reply. Just to make sure I understand, the Nextcloud files are being stored on my Pure Server, correct? Also, when using the Sparrow service on my pure server, there’s an option to Open Wallet and when clicked takes me to a file system screen. But my wallet files are on my actual Mac and not on the pure server, so how do I get them from my Mac to the pure server to open them in the sparrow service?
Yes, your server files are on your server, not on your Mac… unless you sync them.
Again, each service has its own “file system”. When you install Sparrow and open that window, what you are seeing the directory structure that exists only for Sparrow.
Think of it like this… every service is it’s own computer with its own file system.
For Sparrow, you can upload from your Mac to Sparrow via the web browser like this…
Got it! Thanks for the help!