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Bought a 2TB hard drive, formatted it ext4, mounted it at /mnt/Storage_A, created folders /zoneminder/events. Cannot get ZoneMinder to access that area to store events.

web_php.log keeps posting

03/20/21 17:53:28.438922 web_php[7819].WAR [192.168.54.88] [Storage::disk_usage_percent: path /mnt/Storage_A/zoneminder/events does not exist] at /usr/share/zoneminder/www/includes/Storage.php line 74
03/20/21 17:53:28.512576 web_php[7819].ERR [192.168.54.88] [Path /mnt/Storage_A/zoneminder/events does not exist.] at /usr/share/zoneminder/www/includes/Storage.php line 112

owner and group are set to www-data with read/write and file create/delete for /mnt/Storage_A/zoneminder/events

There is no need to create the /zoneminder/events folder.

In fact, the paths don't look like that at all in custom storage (with default settings). See what one of my folders (/videos/One_10tb/) looks like: https://wiki.zoneminder.com/Using_a_ded ... Hard_Drive

Actually on my system ZoneMinder set the default events storage to be

/var/cache/zoneminder/events

owner = www-data with read/write and file create/delete access
group = www-data with read/write and file create/delete access

and that works.

I'm just trying to get it to point to a larger drive and that does not work.

Already used that method (Options -> Storage) to point to the larger drive and just get the errors of it not being there or permission denied.

Permission as I have stated is correct to that folder.

/mnt/Storage_A/zoneminder/events

owner = www-data with read/write and file create/delete access
group = www-data with read/write and file create/delete access

Ok problem has been resolved. Although I had permissions correct on folders zoneminder and events I neglected to have read and execute on folder Storage_A for all