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Move existing instance to external drive

🚧Setup🗄️Server❓Question
So I'm currently running Immich on an Ubuntu 24.04 "server" (it's a laptop with ubuntu server installed), and the laptop only has like 190gb available for Immich. We plugged in an external 1tb HDD, but I don't know how to:
1. Set up Immich to use that HDD as the primary library/storage location
2. Keep Immich/Docker running on the computer using the main drive as the
immich
immich
folder location as it currently is
3. Migrate the existing library over to the HDD
4. Make sure that the correct users can access the HDD in the correct manner (who needs to own the mountpoint?)

Is there a guide for this, or can somebody help walk me through it?
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