I did manage to run it last time. But every time I shut it down, it would not recognize the blocks and it would restart the download. After a whole month of this, I gave up.
Yesterday I found a toggle in Ubuntu settings to specifically give bitcoin-core permission to use external drives, so I've spent the night deep-formatting the SSD (took 7 hours) and today I'll start again.
I'll document whatever happens 👍
A toggle in Ubuntu settings? Please do document your progress.
Yeah, I hate Ubuntu and the way they do stuff and I'm using it only because supposedly Bitcoin Core should be so easy to use with it... But I lack a lot of Ubuntu vocabulary.
After I installed Bitcoin Core using the terminal, I found some sort of very lame GUI software manager I guess where I could see some settings for whatever piece of software you're looking at, in this case Bitcoin Core. One of which was this very specific "allow it to use external drives" one.
I'll take a pic later when I get to it.
