Mounting disc using SSH causes errors in OMV gui

StanleyAccrington · Aug 23rd 2020

I have a memory stick with the filesystem label 'stick' in a USB port of my raspberrypy 4.

At boot it doesn't get mounted because it doesn't have an entry in etc/fstab

If I mount it using the OMV gui it has a mount point of srv/dev-disk-by-label/stick and device name dev/disk/by-label/stick

If I mount it using PUTTY mount –t exfat /dev/sdb1 /media/memorystick it has a mount point of /media /memorystick but a device name dev/disk/by-label/stick

The header of the Filesystem table in the gui is missaligned and the device name is incorrect.

Does this mean that with OMV you can only use directory srv for mount points and you have to use persistent block device naming (by-label, or by-uid if no label is present)?

HannesJo · Aug 23rd 2020

I cannot answer your actual question, but as far as I know, it is adviced not to direct mount at all. This is due to mounting via GUI is doing some more steps but not just executing the mount command. Now you have a mounted device what cannot be handled correctly by OMV because it is not mounted properly.

macom · Aug 24th 2020

If you mount a device from the CLI, OMV is not aware of that device.

When mounting the device from the GUI of OMV, OMV populates its internal database with the device. By this you are able to use it within OMV.

StanleyAccrington · Aug 25th 2020

Thank you. I undestand. I guess the OMV internal database is etc/openmediavault/config.xml

Mounting disc using SSH causes errors in OMV gui

StanleyAccrington Aug 25th 2020

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