Trouble sharing exfat folder

  • Guys, Hi!


    After a long time thinking of converting my Raspberry Pi into a home NAS solution, I came across OpenMediaVault and I've been trying to make it work.


    I've mostly made it for almost all types of external drives (even HFS+), with the only exception being exfat.


    I followed the guide here, install exfat-fuse and all. AND...


    The volume (MyPassport) does appear (under Storage > FileSystems:(



    But when I'm trying to add it as a Shared Folder (under Access Rights Management > Shared Folders), it's not available:



    Also, if I try un-mounting the volume via the GUI, this is what I get:



    Now... a bit more info...


    cat /etc/fstab

    Code
    proc            /proc           proc    defaults          0       0
    /dev/mmcblk0p1  /boot           vfat    defaults          0       2
    /dev/mmcblk0p2  /               ext4    defaults,noatime,nodiratime  0       1
    # >>> [openmediavault]
    UUID=fa36508a-b3c4-4499-b30a-711dd5994225 /media/fa36508a-b3c4-4499-b30a-711dd5994225 ext4 defaults,nofail,acl,user_xattr,noexec,$
    # <<< [openmediavault]
    # a swapfile is not a swap partition, no line here
    #   use  dphys-swapfile swap[on|off]  for that


    blkid


    Code
    /dev/mmcblk0p1: SEC_TYPE="msdos" LABEL="boot" UUID="7D5C-A285" TYPE="vfat" PARTUUID="000b5098-01"
    /dev/mmcblk0p2: LABEL="omv" UUID="5d18be51-3217-4679-9c72-a54e0fc53d6b" TYPE="ext4" PARTUUID="000b5098-02"
    /dev/mmcblk0p3: UUID="fa36508a-b3c4-4499-b30a-711dd5994225" TYPE="ext4" PARTUUID="000b5098-03"
    /dev/sda1: LABEL="EFI" UUID="67E3-17ED" TYPE="vfat" PARTLABEL="EFI System Partition" PARTUUID="65806973-57e0-4460-92b0-ac87145301dd"
    /dev/sda2: LABEL="MyPassport" UUID="5812-37C7" TYPE="exfat" PARTUUID="92b29ea3-7b03-4261-b332-81ad936270da"
    /dev/mmcblk0: PTUUID="000b5098" PTTYPE="dos"

    df



    lsblk



    Code
    NAME        MAJ:MIN RM  SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINT
    sda           8:0    0  2.7T  0 disk 
    |-sda1        8:1    0  200M  0 part 
    `-sda2        8:2    0  2.7T  0 part /media/5812-37C7
    mmcblk0     179:0    0 29.8G  0 disk 
    |-mmcblk0p1 179:1    0   56M  0 part /boot
    |-mmcblk0p2 179:2    0  3.3G  0 part /
    `-mmcblk0p3 179:3    0 26.5G  0 part /media/fa36508a-b3c4-4499-b30a-711dd5994225

    ls -la /media


    Code
    total 525
    drwxr-xr-x  6 root root    4096 Dec 11 12:07 .
    drwxr-xr-x 23 root root    4096 Nov  5 12:26 ..
    drwxr-xr-x  1 root users 262144 Dec 31  1969 5812-37C7
    drwxr-xr-x  2 root root    4096 Dec 11 11:58 UUID-Example
    drwxr-xr-x  1 root users 262144 Dec 31  1969 bigpass
    drwxr-xr-x  3 root root    1024 Dec  7 08:24 fa36508a-b3c4-4499-b30a-711dd5994225


    Any suggestions will be more than welcome - this thing is driving me crazy! :)

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    OMV doesn't support exfat even if the underlying OS is configured to support it. I think Volker has said he won't support it.

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    Exfat was added in 3.0, not sure if it was backported to 2.0

    You are right. It was added four months ago. Definitely not added to 2.x though. Still wouldn't use it :D

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  • The thing is - and I guess I should have mentioned it at the beginning - the installation is on a Raspberry Pi 3 (Model B), so I had to use image 3.0.51 from here.


    Now, the question is: Is there any way I can upgrade my version to one that does include exfat support? So, that - at least - I can give it a try and see how it goes before doing anything more... radical...


    Other than, and since I'm this close to do it (it's all about sharing a 3TB external disc with media in my home network, which for reasons of being compatible with Windows I decided to go with exFat, that's all), I've been thinking of re-formatting the disk. Now, here's what: I'm a Mac user (a programmer actually), so HFS+ would seem like a natural option given that all of my HFS+ experiments with OpenMediaVault have turned fine so far. But is its support reliable enough?

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    Is there any way I can upgrade my version to one that does include exfat support

    That image does include the support. It just doesn't include the filesystem tools. If it isn't working then there is a bug.

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  • What is it that it looks for when trying to list Devices, when under Shared Folders -> Add ?


    P.S. 2nd attempt: I'm just trying OpenMediaVault on top of OSMC. Everything seemingly went fine. Except that now it cannot even recognize a rather regular FAT32 usb stick, that used to work with the previous setup (*basically, as before, it sure shows up under Filesystems, but I cannot unmount it, nor can I share it via Access Rights Management, as it's not there...)

  • apt-get install exfat-utils exfat-fuse


    Then the fs should be able to be mounted in the UI.


    cc @votdev to add the correspondent dependencies to control file

    Well, I did that. The thing is: the volume shows up fine (and mounted) under Filesystems. I just cannot share it - I go to Access Rights Management > Shared Folders, but it's not available under "Devices"

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    Yes, you have to mount in the web interface to use in the shared folder section.

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  • Aha. That's a crucial point.
    I'll give it a try later - thanks everyone for all the help, really appreciated! :)

    Well, I just tried it. And that was the solution. :) (for all of the above issues I mentioned).


    Once I unmount the volume via the terminal (SSH), and go back to the WebUI and re-mount it (in Filesystems), then it shows up fine.


    Thanks a lot everyone!

    • Offizieller Beitrag

    Once I unmount the volume via the terminal (SSH), and go back to the WebUI and re-mount it (in Filesystems), then it shows up fine.

    This applies to all filesystems not just exfat :)

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