Nextcloud - Adding External Storage

[PCn00b3000]

This might be a simple question for some of you out there; at least, that's my current hope.

I'm currently attempting to lead Nextcloud to recognize my EXT4-formated eternal hard drive, so that I can have space to host content for my members.
In the "Configuration" slot, I'm assuming they're asking for the disk's mount point, but I'm too new to Linux to understand how to find it correctly.
I simply put </mnt> in, and it accepted it. In the content area of the site, I am able to see a folder with the correct folders.

However, when I click on them to see what is inside, they're all empty. I'm not sure how to have the content visible and having it "streamed" (for lack of a better term) straight from the hard drive.

Does anyone have any suggestions on what I could do?

Thanks in advance

[Denned]

I assume your intent is to have your external drive as a primary drive.

  'datadirectory' => '/mnt',

Change that line in your config file.

Your config file is (most likely) at /var/www/nextcloud/config/config.php

The external storage function isn't meant as primary storage.

[phoenixflower]

On 8/2/2019 at 2:32 AM, PCn00b3000 said:

This might be a simple question for some of you out there; at least, that's my current hope.

The best thing for nextcloud is to create a symbolic link (making it your Distribution's problem).  So let's assume you installed nextcloud under your home directory, take your data whose directory is specified in dataDirectory of your config and create a symbolic link to the extra drive.  It confuses nextcloud less and allow you to move stuff around if you need to