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I don't manage to have my external drive recognized #231

Closed fBedecarrats closed 7 years ago

fBedecarrats commented 7 years ago

Hello, Installation on RPi3 ran smoothly, but I don't manage to have my external drive recognized (230 ssd usb hard drive). It was initially in Fat32, so when I tried to activate it, I got an error message from the Setting menu telling me it had to be in ext 2, 3 or 4. I connected in SSH to the RPi, unmounted the drive and formated it in ext4. Now, in SSH, <sudo fdisk -l> indicates that I have :

Disk /dev/sda: 223.6 GiB, 240057409536 bytes, 468862128 sectors Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes

As it didn't appear in the Syncloud Settings menu, so I created a mounting point with <sudo mkdir -p /mnt/disque1> and mounted with <sudo mount -t ext4 /dev/sda /mnt/disque1>. It seems correctly mounted, as <df -h> indicates that I have a:

Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/root 1.9G 796M 1.1G 44% / devtmpfs 459M 0 459M 0% /dev tmpfs 463M 0 463M 0% /dev/shm tmpfs 463M 12M 451M 3% /run tmpfs 5.0M 0 5.0M 0% /run/lock tmpfs 463M 0 463M 0% /sys/fs/cgroup tmpfs 93M 0 93M 0% /run/user/0 /dev/sda 220G 60M 209G 1% /mnt/disque1

But it is still not detected by the Settings menu. Can someone please tell me what I did wrong and how to have the external drive detected by the syncloud app? Best regards, FB

cyberb commented 7 years ago

Disk should have at least one partition with ext filesystem to be recognised.

cyberb commented 7 years ago

root@cubietruck:~# fdisk -l /dev/sda

Disk /dev/sda: 1.8 TiB, 2000398933504 bytes, 3907029167 sectors Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes Disklabel type: dos Disk identifier: 0x81617ebb

Device Boot Start End Sectors Size Id Type /dev/sda1 2048 3907028991 3907026944 1.8T 83 Linu

fBedecarrats commented 7 years ago

Thanks you ! Indeed I was missing this : Creating a partition <sudo fdisk /dev/sda> and then formatting it <sudo mkfs.ext4 -b 4096 /dev/sda1> It works fine now. Thanks a lot ! Maybe it could be useful to add a few instruction on how to prepare the external drive in the "Build your device" webpage?

cyberb commented 7 years ago

We have this issue and at some point we will implement it: https://github.com/syncloud/platform/issues/10