[BUG] Using USB hard disk device to load all the time

[pi-dal]

Describe the bug I tried using a mobile hard drive on raspberry pi 4B, but file manager has been loading.

To Reproduce Steps to reproduce the behavior:

1. Go to 'The IP address of my raspberry pi'
2. Click on 'File Manager'
3. Scroll down to 'Mount location of mobile hard disk'
4. See error

Expected behavior I hope I can freely access and write to my mobile hard disk on arozos

Screenshots

Host Information(please complete the following information):

• OS: raspios_lite_arm64
• Arozos version (development.0.1.113)

Client Information(please complete the following information):

• OS: [macOS Big Sur]
• Browser [Safari]
• Version [14.0.3]

Additional context I like arozos this great project very much. Thank tobychui and those who came to help me

[tobychui]

Hi @pi-dal ,

It seems that I cannot reproduce your issue on my Raspberry pi 4 nor my PC. I guess this might be a specific problem regarding the setup you are using. The following are a few directions you can take a look to resolve the issue yourself.

• Check if the permission you set on the mount point is correct. (Try sudo chmod 775 /media/pi-dal-arozos)
• Check if your external HDD is properly powered. Raspberry Pi's USB port usually do not have enough current to run an external hard disk. You might need an externally powered HDD mount （外接電源之外置硬盤盒）for it.
• Try to run arozos with sudo and see if the problem is solved. If yes, that means there are some permission settings that is invalid in your system.
• Try not to use $1 for the disk ID. Although I have tested this ID should not bring any issues, it is still recommended to use ASCII only name in the disk ID.

Here is my attempt to reproduce your issue, which works completely fine:

Let me know if you have been able to solve your issue. Thank you for your issue report :)

[pi-dal]

Hi, @tobychui ,

I tried to rule out what you said about 1,3,4. But I found it didn't work. I'm trying to check the power problem of the mobile hard disk. Do you have any good way?

Thank you

[tobychui]

Hi @pi-dal ,

I think you can try a few more things.

• Check if you can access the mount point (What is the output of ls /media/pi-dal-arozos ? Does it shows I/O error?)
• Try to replace your external hard disk with a USB thumb drive (隨身碟 / U盤) and see if it works or not. If the USB drive works, it might be your hard disk hardware issues.
• If you have no important data in the hard disk, try to do a full format of the disk using fdisk

  
  sudo fdisk /dev/sda

Press p (list all partition) Press d x 4 (Delete /sda1 to /sda4) Press n (Create new partition, use default settings) Press w (Write and finish)

Format the disk using mkfs.ext4 (or ntfs if you prefer)

sudo mkfs.ext4 /dev/sda1

Mount it again in ArozOS after the formatting is finished

[pi-dal]

I found in the backend of Raspberry Pi that its folder doesn't exist and when I created it and gave permission, it started working. If you have the same problem, try my method.