External HD (USB3) not mounted

Ernestopheles · March 24, 2019 at 8:08 PM

My video files are on an external HD (NTFS filesystem). Starting libreelec will not automatically mount this HD, how can I achieve that, please?

**Klojum** · March 24, 2019 at 8:20 PM Official Post

I take it the external drive is spinning at the time LibreELEC is booting? Normally all connected drives are mounted when possible.

Linux can be picky when mounting disks. Disks that have errors on them, or are still in suspend or hibernation mode, will not be mounted.

Ernestopheles · March 24, 2019 at 9:47 PM

I tried this:

/storage/.config/autostart.sh:

#!/bin/sh

sleep 5;

mount /dev/sda2 /var/media/"Seagate Backup Plus"

but it does not work on restart, just on start.

After restart the mount command gives:

mount: mounting /dev/sda2 on /var/media/Seagate Backup Plus failed: No such file or directory

HD spinning and LEDS are on.

mount does not list /dev/sda2.

Plugging USB out and in will mount the HD.

**Klojum** · March 24, 2019 at 10:07 PM Official Post

External Seagate drives have a bit of a history of not mounting.

I'd say disable the mount in the autostart.sh file, and reboot your Kodi device (whatever that is).

Then get us the URLs of the following commands:

Code

blkid | paste
mount | paste
dmesg | paste

and we'll take it from there.

**chewitt** · March 25, 2019 at 1:31 AM Official Post

Quote from Ernestopheles

but it does not work on restart, just on start.

If restart = cold start then autostart.sh will be run. If restart = wake from suspend it will not be run, because autostart is a boot script and waking a suspended system is not boot. Your current script forces the entire boot process to stall for 5 secs. It would be better to (background)& the mount task so that boot can continue normally. You can look at using systemd .power functions in /storage/.config/system.d/ to schedule actions around system suspend and wake events.

davidsilva · March 25, 2019 at 8:12 AM

Would it be easier to make sure the drive has stopped spinning on shut down? I have the same problem with my drive not mounting on restart, but fine from a cold boot.

Ernestopheles · March 25, 2019 at 9:28 AM

Quote from chewitt

If restart = cold start then autostart.sh will be run. If restart = wake from suspend it will not be run, because autostart is a boot script and waking a suspended system is not boot. Your current script forces the entire boot process to stall for 5 secs. It would be better to (background)& the mount task so that boot can continue normally. You can look at using systemd .power functions in /storage/.config/system.d/ to schedule actions around system suspend and wake events.

Hi chewitt, thanks a lot for explaining. Did not know that restart is not shutdown and start. Sometimes things are not as they look like...

I will try the system. d solution or just not use restart.