How to mount a usb hard disk drive? I’m trying to set a NAS-like system on a TvBox. Share an HDD over samba. 
https://paste.armbian.com/xuvobugato
 

Moved to userspace sub forum.  Removed incorrect tag.

https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-lm&q=how+to+mount+a+usb+drive+in+linux

 

No success?

It’s not like that. Armbian in some cases does not detect connected USB hard drives. Only flash drives or microSD. That’s why I shared the link. If you don’t want to help, don’t. You’re not obligated to comment. 

[    5.124489] usb 1-2: New USB device found, idVendor=125f, idProduct=a35a, bcdDevice= 1.00
[    5.138662] usb 1-2: New USB device strings: Mfr=2, Product=3, SerialNumber=1
[    5.151816] usb 1-2: Product: HD650
[    5.163401] usb 1-2: Manufacturer: ADATA
[    5.174874] usb 1-2: SerialNumber: 469093854006
[    5.271985] usb-storage 1-2:1.0: USB Mass Storage device detected
[    5.284494] scsi host0: usb-storage 1-2:1.0
[    5.305338] usbcore: registered new interface driver uas
[    6.304167] scsi 0:0:0:0: Direct-Access     ADATA    HD650            0    PQ: 0 ANSI: 6
[    6.319922] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Spinning up disk...
[    7.010572] EXT4-fs (mmcblk0p2): mounted filesystem with writeback data mode. Quota mode: none.
[    7.359204] .
[    7.937317] systemd[1]: System time before build time, advancing clock.
[    8.383175] .................................................................................................not responding...
[  128.008368] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Read Capacity(10) failed: Result: hostbyte=0x00 driverbyte=DRIVER_OK
[  128.023616] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Sense Key : 0x2 [current] 
[  128.035289] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] ASC=0x4 ASCQ=0x1 
[  128.046964] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] 0 512-byte logical blocks: (0 B/0 B)
[  128.059173] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] 0-byte physical blocks
[  135.008044] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Test WP failed, assume Write Enabled
[  141.957722] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Asking for cache data failed
[  141.969473] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Assuming drive cache: write through
[  141.982023] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Attached SCSI disk

So it seems like it is being detected. Everything beyond is out of scope of Armbian and userspace related.

Yeah, I saw that too. But you see it does not respond. Nvertheless, it does respond on all other systems. It does respond on my laptop Ubuntu, is mounted fine, It does mount fine on android tv. It does respond. It’s alive. Armbian isn’t responding with it. That’s why I am here.

1 hour ago, artefactom said:

Armbian isn’t responding with it. That’s why I am here.

I suggest you to try Armbian on your desktop PC. There is a version for download here: https://www.armbian.com/uefi-x86/

OK so I managed to get a response or communication between the scanned device them getting these weird errors please take a look

 

oh and I am also sharing the FSTAB entries for the disks which I think is OK

https://paste.armbian.com/wavomulela

 

 

  fstab

UUID=29139414-cf10-4d96-91c7-aa71da90d700 / ext4 defaults,noatime,commit=600,errors=remount-ro 0 1
UUID=7612-3BF7 /boot vfat defaults 0 2
tmpfs /tmp tmpfs defaults,nosuid 0 0
UUID=9aa8342d-e41b-4faa-85ff-987d0eb39671 /media/250hdd ext4 rw,user,exec,nofail,umask=0000 0 0

 

 mount -a
mount: /media/250hdd: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sda1, missing codepage or helper program, or other error.
       dmesg(1) may have more information after failed mount system call.
mount: (hint) your fstab has been modified, but systemd still uses
       the old version; use 'systemctl daemon-reload' to reload.

 

blkid
/dev/mmcblk0p1: LABEL_FATBOOT="armbi_boot" LABEL="armbi_boot" UUID="7612-3BF7" BLOCK_SIZE="512" TYPE="vfat" PARTUUID="76f4bd06-01"
/dev/mmcblk0p2: LABEL="armbi_root" UUID="29139414-cf10-4d96-91c7-aa71da90d700" BLOCK_SIZE="4096" TYPE="ext4" PARTUUID="76f4bd06-02"
/dev/zram1: LABEL="log2ram" UUID="9a014cf4-3774-4ba7-92e5-9f3e293739de" BLOCK_SIZE="4096" TYPE="ext4"
/dev/zram0: UUID="1d241a44-4e41-4d07-90c0-00f6074c24ab" TYPE="swap"
/dev/sda1: LABEL="250hdd" UUID="9aa8342d-e41b-4faa-85ff-987d0eb39671" BLOCK_SIZE="4096" TYPE="ext4" PARTUUID="76f4bd06-01"

Edited September 6, 20242 yr by artefactom

I just  realized that to mount some thing in Linux you make a folder and then you go on and mount your drive or partition in there. If for whatever reason it doesn’t mount right or it does but later it fails, that folder still exist there. If you don’t realize it failed you’re gonna put files in there and you’re gonna flood that system driver and then run out of space wich then will lead to boot failure. That is the stupidest thing I’ve realized about Linux. 

did you do systemctl daemon-reload as advised?

 

Did you create the /media/250hdd folder beforehand?

 

Can you comment out the fstab line, and try mount /dev/sda1 /media/hdd250 ?

I always use mkdir -p

31.08.2024 в 21:36, artefactom сказал:

How to mount a usb hard disk drive? I’m trying to set a NAS-like system on a TvBox. Share an HDD over samba. 

I have a similar situation with bananapi-m3. When I connect the hdd using a USB-SATA adapter,

the disk is first detected, and when accessing it, it suddenly disappears.
But I know exactly the reason for this behavior, since I worked with a soldering iron with this device.
The disk consumes 2.5 amps, and USB can give much less.

I do not know if this message of mine can help you.

On 10/19/2024 at 1:26 PM, going said:

The disk consumes 2.5 amps

Yeah I pretty much figured it out by hearing it trying to spin and fail constantly When connected to it. But then again when I connected the same HDD with the same sata USB adapter to my Smart TV directly, It ran OK first try. So I’m waiting for this external powered 2 amp usb adapter and hope it’s enough. Thank you for your input. 

 

On 10/19/2024 at 1:34 AM, robertoj said:

did you do systemctl daemon-reload as advised?

 

Did you create the /media/250hdd folder beforehand?

 

Can you comment out the fstab line, and try mount /dev/sda1 /media/hdd250 ?

 Yes to all and the Fstab is there. I was using the wrong UID part. 

 

On 10/19/2024 at 11:38 AM, Michael Robinson said:

 

I always use mkdir -p

 

Oukay thanks. What does this achieve? 

Edited October 21, 20241 yr by artefactom

If /media does not exist, if you type mkdir -p /media/usbdrive, it will not complain about /media not there, and create that folder too

OK, I think it’s happening. Correct me if I’m wrong but the stupidest thing about linux mounting , is happening. I’m sending or a  process is downloading and sending files to where sdb14 is mounted. Before you ask… it is mounted. I checked and it is noticiable in the image. . So it is constantly blocking my available space in the /dev/mmcblk0p2 which I assume is the System partition. That’s all I know. There is nothing else happening wich can hoard free space in the system. Up untill I started using that it started to happen. Or so I think. How can I find out? How can I Find out what is hoarding that free space in disc?

On 10/21/2024 at 11:36 AM, artefactom said:

So I’m waiting for this external powered 2 amp usb adapter and hope it’s enough

Oh and yeah. It helped alright. Drive is mounted. And maybe working ? I cannot say until I solve the stupidest thing about Linux mounting mystery. 

 

edit: yes it was the stupidest thing about Linux mounting. I unplugged the drive and there it was still a file downloaded. I. The folder target for the mount. Even though the System reports, as in the image, that the drive was mounted. Geez… That is stupid. 

Edited October 30, 20241 yr by artefactom

15 часов назад, artefactom сказал:

the stupidest thing about linux mounting

 

15 часов назад, artefactom сказал:

Oh and yeah. It helped alright. Drive is mounted. And maybe working ? I cannot say until I solve the stupidest thing about Linux mounting mystery. 

 

edit: yes it was the stupidest thing about Linux mounting. I unplugged the drive and there it was still a file downloaded. I. The folder target for the mount. Even though the System reports, as in the image, that the drive was mounted. Geez… That is stupid. 

 

command help:

mount --help

full help page:

man mount

 

/dev/mmcblk0p2 29G 28G 0 100% /

 

du --help

create a file dirsize.sh:

#!/bin/bash

for d in /*
do
	case $d in
		/dev|/proc|/sys) echo "Skipped $d ; continue ;;
	esac
	if [ -d $d ];then echo "$(du $d)";fi
done

chmod +x dirsize.sh - make it executable

sudo ./dirsize.sh - Run with superuser rights

Edited October 30, 20241 yr by going
Run with superuser rights