Adding a NTFS hardrive with my music collection already on it??

**ebag4** · 08-31-2010, 04:06 PM

Hello,

I installed VortexBox for the first time today, ripped a ouple of cds and played them using MPD with both the Slimserver interface and Minion using firefox, everything worked fine. I now want to add my existing music database on a separate HDD in the same machine. Unfortunately I have not been able to get this to work. I have about 200G of FLAC files in Artist/Album format. Is there any way to get this to work (Linux newby here) or will I have to purchase a larger drive so that I can put the VortexBox software and all of my music on one drive? BTW, I was able to copy a couple of files over to the VB Files>Music>FLAC directory but it is very slow to copy this way.

Thanks for your help!

Best,

Ed

**hifihere** · 08-31-2010, 10:40 PM

Essentially VB is the storage device, it is a NAS. All your data must be on the drive or drives that you configure at installation.

You must plan for the maximum storage you will need before installation then you can copy files from your other storage to the VB NAS at any time later.

If you use a hard wired ethernet with a fast router the transfer will go as quickly as possible.

**ebag4** · 09-01-2010, 03:35 AM

Thank you for the reply, much appreciated.

Best,

Ed

**maxtorm** · 09-04-2010, 03:41 AM

Don't quote me, but I think you use the second drive by creating a symbolic link to it in your existing storage folder. Let's say the mount point of your additional drive is /media/ntfs_drive/. In the root of your existing music storage folder, enter the following:

ln -s /media/ntfs_drive additional_mp3s

"additional_mp3s" will appear to be just another folder to VB, but in reality it points to the additional storage.

As I say, don't quote me. I haven't tried this -- but I don't see why it wouldn't work.