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I'm still a noob so please excuse the simple question.

I got ubuntu 20.04 installed on a Raspberry Pi 4. The OS is installed on a 16G SD card. That don't give me any space for downloads. I have a 2T USB thumb drive I want to use for downloads.

Can anyone please help me configure ubuntu to download to that USB drive?

I'm familiar with inputing in the terminal but I don't know what command to use.

Alexander Carrasco
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  • You haven't given any clues as to how you are downloading. I use wget usually myself, so it goes to the $PWD or my present working directory meaning I have full control on where I download via where I am when I start download. How are you downloading? (and where do you have the 2TB device mounted?) Are you using Ubuntu 20.04 LTS Server? Ubuntu 20.04 LTS Desktop, and what application are you using to download? – guiverc Feb 08 '21 at 01:59
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    In Firefox go to Settings/Preferences/Files and Applications/Downloads click save files to, and from the dropdown select your 2TB USB. – C.S.Cameron Feb 08 '21 at 02:38
  • Hi. And excuse me for not replying Sooner. That's exactly what I needed. At first I wasn't seeing my USB drive but I did some further research and tried mounting the drive at boot. – Alexander Carrasco Feb 15 '21 at 02:07

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  1. Mount the disk to /mnt/Download (You can edit /etc/fstab to let it mount every time you boot, see How to make partitions mount at startup? , make sure to add x-systemd.automount,nofail into mount options.)
  2. sudo chmod ugo+rw /mnt/Download
  3. ln -s /mnt/Download /home/yous-username/Downloads
  4. You can also config the browser to directly download to /mnt/Download If you use a command-line downloader (wget, etc.), you must first cd into /mnt/Download
Emoji
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