Mount second HDD

Ragnaroek · April 6, 2017 at 6:49 PM

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!

jochen02 · April 6, 2017 at 8:11 PM

Quote from Ragnaroek

/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.

**Klojum** · April 6, 2017 at 8:38 PM 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.

Ragnaroek · April 6, 2017 at 9:28 PM

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:

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**chewitt** · April 7, 2017 at 5:07 AM Official Post

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.

Ragnaroek · April 7, 2017 at 2:43 PM

Quote from chewitt

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

**chewitt** · April 7, 2017 at 3:34 PM 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** · April 7, 2017 at 5:15 PM Official Post

What is the output of df -h?

Have you tried to manually mount it?

Code

mkdir /storage/mnt
mount -t ntfs /dev/sdb1 /storage/mnt

If that works, then something else is causing the issue.

Ragnaroek · April 8, 2017 at 8:08 AM

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

**Klojum** · April 8, 2017 at 8:21 AM Official Post

Quote from Ragnaroek

One of the best support I ever had.

And still you haven't updated my reputation rate... (just kidding)

trogggy · April 8, 2017 at 9:43 AM

Quote from Ragnaroek

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

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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.

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