Can't create shared folder on USB drive

If I understand you correctly, you want to share a folder from the drive on which OMV is installed. This is not allowed by default but you can do it by installing the "openmediavault-sharerootfs" plugin. Then the drive should appear as a choice.

Ok, in this case, it should be relatively straight forward.

First, you must be sure that the drive is detected in the disks menu in OMV. You may have to hit the refresh button and maybe even reboot, if at all possible.

Then you must mount the file system on that drive in the corresponding menu. Then you can use it for a shared folder. Remember for sharing it, you must create a Shared Folder as well as an SMB or NFS share using the Shared Folder.

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Hi all.

I'm I've connected my USB drive (formatted as NTFS) to by system.

I can mount the drive in the GUI (I've seen that mounting from the command line can cause issues).

When I go to create a shared folder using the GUI, my USB drive doesn't appear in the list of devices.

Am I doing something wrong?

Below is the output from my fstab. the device in question is /dev/disk/by-uuid/5848A60B225D9CB1

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# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
# Use 'blkid' to print the universally unique identifier for a
# device; this may be used with UUID= as a more robust way to name devices
# that works even if disks are added and removed. See fstab(5).
#
# <file system> <mount point>   <type>  <options>       <dump>  <pass>
# / was on /dev/sda1 during installation
UUID=f777d7c2-dcd9-443a-9fb4-825c090af158 /               ext4    errors=remount-ro 0       1
# swap was on /dev/sda5 during installation
UUID=da7a86b4-3227-4443-908f-b763dd2e5367 none            swap    sw              0       0
# >>> [openmediavault]
/dev/disk/by-uuid/9a39f404-4671-4f25-8a0d-aa2d86e5d5f7          /srv/dev-disk-by-uuid-9a39f404-4671-4f25-8a0d-aa2d86e5d5f7      ext4    defaults,nofail,user_xattr,usrjquota=aquota.user,grpjquota=aquota.group,jqfmt=vfsv0,acl 0 2
/dev/disk/by-uuid/b00b709e-2403-47c1-a977-1fabf3ef1e9d          /srv/dev-disk-by-uuid-b00b709e-2403-47c1-a977-1fabf3ef1e9d      ext4    defaults,nofail,user_xattr,usrjquota=aquota.user,grpjquota=aquota.group,jqfmt=vfsv0,acl 0 2
/dev/disk/by-uuid/0f4fbb9f-1bdb-4783-b12f-2f6947c742e7          /srv/dev-disk-by-uuid-0f4fbb9f-1bdb-4783-b12f-2f6947c742e7      ext4    defaults,nofail,user_xattr,usrjquota=aquota.user,grpjquota=aquota.group,jqfmt=vfsv0,acl 0 2
/dev/disk/by-uuid/37809bb0-77f9-430e-9b2c-399c18e6501a          /srv/dev-disk-by-uuid-37809bb0-77f9-430e-9b2c-399c18e6501a      ext4    defaults,nofail,user_xattr,usrjquota=aquota.user,grpjquota=aquota.group,jqfmt=vfsv0,acl 0 2
/dev/disk/by-uuid/353e1291-284a-4231-852c-62f876e8a0d2          /srv/dev-disk-by-uuid-353e1291-284a-4231-852c-62f876e8a0d2      ext4    defaults,nofail,user_xattr,usrjquota=aquota.user,grpjquota=aquota.group,jqfmt=vfsv0,acl 0 2
/dev/disk/by-uuid/027A5D6B7A5D5C8B              /srv/dev-disk-by-uuid-027A5D6B7A5D5C8B  ntfs    defaults,nofail 0 2
/dev/disk/by-uuid/5848A60B225D9CB1              /srv/dev-disk-by-uuid-5848A60B225D9CB1  ntfs    defaults,nofail,big_writes      0 2
/srv/dev-disk-by-uuid-0f4fbb9f-1bdb-4783-b12f-2f6947c742e7/Storage:/srv/dev-disk-by-uuid-9a39f404-4671-4f25-8a0d-aa2d86e5d5f7/Storage_6TB2              /srv/5ff686ed-d7b2-48fc-bd37-de20902fa577       fuse.mergerfs   defaults,allow_othe$
# <<< [openmediavault]

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NTFS is only recommended for first time copy to NAS, if you want to use an external USB disk , better to format it like ext4, to avoid problems like you have.

Other way is to plug the disk on your windows PC, and copy data by SMB, and share it on your windows PC.

Can you show a screen shot of the file systems screen?

As a bad workaround, you can install the sharerootfs plugin and share the directory /srv/dev-disk-by-uuid-5848A60B225D9CB1 if you only need the shared folder temporarily.