Introduction
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ownCloud provides the ability to mount an external storage device.
The external storage devices serves as a secondary storage device within ownCloud.

The ownCloud Admin has the ability to create such a mount.
In addition, the ownCloud Admin may decide to provide the end user the ability to create the mount.
The mounts may be created on a per-user, per group, or all user basis.

Supported mounts
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The following lists the supported storage types.

*   Local



*   Amazon S3



*   Dropbox



*   FTP



*   Google Drive



*   OpenStack Object Storage



*   SMB/CIFS



*   ownCloud/WebDAV



*   SFTP



*   iRODS


