I am trying to configure a Raspberry Pi to run as a file server, have installed SAMBA and have attached a 1TB external hard drive, which appears to have 4 partitions. Using Xwindows, I thought I had the advertised share mapped to the 1TB partition. So I physically placed the Pi in its permanent home (where it is difficult to get its video signal to a monitor etc.), so help with command line tools is best for me.

My problem is the share is acting like it only has about 2GB of space. And I am not sure why the mount command does not show me the partition.

I have attached to this post some output which has me baffled.

Thanks
Jonathan

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sda4 is not mounted. What is the output of "mount -a"?

Also, you shouldn't be using ntfs unless you absolutely have to. If this RPi is going to act as a file server in a closet and the external drive is not going to be removed, then get ntfs off of there and replace it with a native Linux FS like ext4.

Your root file system is also completely full, where did all of your space go? Did you dump files into /media/PAR1TB without a drive mounted there? If that's the case, they'll be dumped onto your SD card instead.

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I straightened out the mess I made (you would have laughed or cried), and it now works (planning on keeping NTFS, as I have no other rig that can read EXT4 file systems).

Got the drive mounted with mount -a. But I cannot figure out how to get it to mount at boot time automatically - etc/mtab and etc/fstab look okay to me. Please see attached.

Many thanks

Jonathan

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This is just a shot in the dark, but try adding "auto" to the options for the partition, so it looks like this:

On this computer, I have two partitions on a external drive that I set to mount on boot using the "auto" option maples mentioned. Here are the relevant lines from my /etc/fstab (I used the UUIDs to identify the partitions):

I've used similar configurations on other boxes.

tried adding "user", removing "defaults", changing fschk parameter from 0 to 1, and then 1 to 2.

Same results - does not mount at boot time, "mount -a" is always successful.

attached some fdisk and parted output

I would also note that the entry in mtab seems to have no effect (and I only added an mtab entry because it was not being mounted from fstab)

Any thoughts?

Thanks
Jonathan

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Is the drive USB powered or does if have a separate power supply? At boot time there may not be enough current to spin up the the drive. Have you looked at the output of the dmesg command?

Drive is independently powered

dmesg output is attached. The line at 27.xxx is generated by "mount -a"

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Is the drive always powered on or do you turn it on when booting the Pi?

Always on

It is possible the drive is going to sleep and not waking back up fast enough. Or does an immediate reboot not mount the drive either?

I restart with

sudo shutdown -r "now"

so I doubt the drive is going to sleep, and it is not getting remounted.

What is the make/model of this external?

The actual drive is a WDC WD10 EARS-00MVWB0. Since it has a separate power supply maybe a WDC My Book Essential.

... from a MyBook and stuck it in an enclosure