Mount second HDD

  • Hello guys,

    my name is Markus and I'm new in this forum.
    And I have to start with a question.

    I installed LibreElec on my x64 PC and it works fine.
    But now I want to install a second HDD per SATA and it doens't work.

    with "blkid"

    if finds the second hdd named "Massenspeicher":

    /dev/sda1: LABEL="System" UUID="581d9f94-0e8f-420b-b5dd-184ec8443c66" TYPE="ext4" PARTUUID="8182ccfc-01"

    /dev/sda2: LABEL="Storage" UUID="fee24c48-d28e-4753-b86d-6efa8663da79" TYPE="ext4" PARTUUID="8182ccfc-02"

    /dev/sdb1: LABEL="Massenspeicher" UUID="C2048B30048B268F" TYPE="ntfs" PARTUUID="7d08a106-01"


    But in Kodi its not found.

    How do I mount it into Kodi?

    Thanks for help!

  • /dev/sdb1: LABEL="Massenspeicher" UUID="C2048B30048B268F" TYPE="ntfs" PARTUUID="7d08a106-01"

    But in Kodi its not found.


    I am not sure if kodi has ntfs support. If possible backup the drive and format the partition to ext4. But that makes the drive unusable under MS Windows.

    • Official Post

    Doublecheck the HDD for disk errors. And also check if drive is still is suspend or hibernation mode.
    Linux is not very picky before mount in such situations.

    Ragnaroek: You can use the built-in pastebinit command for the various text listings.

    So, after the disk checks, return the URLs for the following commands:

    Code
    blkid | pastebinit
    mount | pastebinit

    Also, if you want to use the HDD permanently in your LibreELEC htpc, I myself would format the HDD as EXT4, not NTFS. That is, if the HDD is still empty. EXT4 is the default disk format for Linux today.

  • Thanks for the fast answers!

    I checked the disk. Everything is ok.

    The HDD is full with stuff, so I dont want to format it and I dont have another one with enough space for temporary storage...
    This would be the last chance if everything else doesn't work


    The links:

    FEPc

    hPJX


  • If it shows up in blkid the device is seen by the kernel. It probably doesn't auto-mount due to a dirty NTFS filesystem or some other issue.

    "dmesg | paste" and share the URL pls .. then we can see what the error is.


    Hello chewitt,

    the wanted link:

    fYif

    • Official Post
    Code
    [    2.999500] scsi 5:0:0:0: Direct-Access     ATA      SAMSUNG HD753LJ  1107 PQ: 0 ANSI: 5
    [    3.033457] sd 5:0:0:0: [sdb] 1465149168 512-byte logical blocks: (750 GB/699 GiB)
    [    3.033489] sd 5:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg1 type 0
    [    3.033509] sd 5:0:0:0: [sdb] Write Protect is off
    [    3.033512] sd 5:0:0:0: [sdb] Mode Sense: 00 3a 00 00
    [    3.033543] sd 5:0:0:0: [sdb] Write cache: enabled, read cache: enabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA
    [    3.039490]  sdb: sdb1
    [    3.039731] sd 5:0:0:0: [sdb] Attached SCSI disk

    Kernel can see the disk. There's no errors, which is good, but no apparent attempt to mount it, which is odd. Hmm..

  • Iridium:
    Couldn't mount the drive manually.

    BUT as Klojum in the first posting said, the drive was in hibernation mode.

    Windows 10 never shuts down completely. (you have to deactivate the fast boot option).
    After shutting down and switching back to my living room pc, everything works fine!


    Thanks everyone, and sorry that I haven't checked the hibernation mode thing first....
    One of the best support I ever had.

    Greetings
    Markus

  • If you'd used the words 'dual boot' it would have triggered my memory.
    I use a microserver - dual boot windows 10 / libreelec. I realized that all drives would mount if I rebooted from windows into libreelec, but not if I powered down from windows then restarted in LE.
    It must have been like that for more than 6 months, never noticed. Anyway it was the same issue.