USB drives with the same name

  • Hi!

    I came across this issue while working with Kodi on LibreELEC 12.0.2, installed on a Raspberry Pi 4. There were two USB drives with the same name, and when I connected them to Kodi's File Manager, it only showed one of the drives, the one that was connected last. If I disconnect last connected USB drive, the FileManager returns to show first USB drive.

    From what I understand, this is because the mount point for the drives is the same as their name. Is there any way to make Kodi see the two drives as two separate devices in FileManager, or force it to mount them using different names?

  • In short: No. (Not without serious hacking)

    Rename one file system if you need to to connect them both. This can be done on a different system with a GUI supporting the operation.