Posts by heretic

Thank you for your reply.. So if i am reading it right EXT4 is fully supported my LibreELCE naively and kodi as no issues reading and writing to it?

I have built a media player using LibreELEC. The system is a i5 12600k CPU, Asus Prime B660 motherboard, 512 GB nvme drive(to install LibrELEC), 64 GB of ram and a AMD RX6650 GPU. There is no other OS in this system just the one drive with LibreELEC install on it.

The system runs fine, I have 7 x 8TB hard disks (Spinning Rust) not SSDs which i store my media on. They are as follows 4K, 4K box sets 1080p, 1080p box sets, Old 720p, Tv Series and Black and white Classics. All these drives are formatted NTFS.

My issue is "sometimes" when i save a movie to one of my drives. The drive can't be seen anymore in Kodi. If I remove the drive and plug it into my desktop (running linux mint) the drive shows up no problem and all the data is there. When I then put it back into my media PC kodi now see's it. But if I just unplug the drive leave it say 10 mins them plug it back in it still will not show up in kodi. I have to remove it and plug it into my computer first.

It seems to me to be a mounting issue. Once Kodi writes to a drive it loses the mount point. When I plug it into my desktop Linux fixes something and now kodi can see it again. I am not sure of this its just a guess.

I how googled this issue and the best answer was NTFS drives don't play nice with Linux system. Is this true? If this is my issue them my question becomes what format is best to us with kodi? ext4, btfs, exfat, or what?

Because I really can't afford 7 New 8TB drives I will buy 1 and format it to which ever format is best and copy 1 drive at a time.

Thank you for taking the time to read this post. Any help will be appreciated