Mounted file system but no mount 'tick' and not selectable

revolving-leslie · Oct 12th 2023

Hello,

I have a new USB drive plugged in to my Raspberry PI. Have wiped and created the EXT4 file system for the device and though I can see the filesystem listed, it doesn't have a 'tick' under the 'Mounted' column and has no mount point. Under 'Available' there is just a dash and status says 'Online'. I'm not able to create a shared folder for this device because it's not shown in the drop down. Any advice appreciated.

Thanks.

chente · Oct 12th 2023

Quote from revolving-leslie

I have a new USB drive plugged in to my Raspberry PI. Have wiped and created the EXT4 file system for the device and though I can see the filesystem listed, it doesn't have a 'tick' under the 'Mounted' column and has no mount point. Under 'Available' there is just a dash and status says 'Online'. I'm not able to create a shared folder for this device because it's not shown in the drop down. Any advice appreciated.

How many units and how are they connected to the Raspberry? If they are connected directly via USB you may have power supply problems.

revolving-leslie · Oct 13th 2023

Hello, It would just be 2 units. But I am doing this with just the one drive (the new one) plugged in. And have used fine with 2 drives previously (am replacing the old one as 5+ years old and starting to show bad sectors). Thanks.

chente · Oct 13th 2023

A Raspberry does not provide enough power for two USB mechanical drives simultaneously. You must use an external power supply, search the forum, there is information about this.

macom · Oct 14th 2023

Quote from revolving-leslie

I have a new USB drive plugged in to my Raspberry PI. Have wiped and created the EXT4 file system for the device and though I can see the filesystem listed, it doesn't have a 'tick' under the 'Mounted' column and has no mount point

If it is not a power issue, did you mount the filesystem?

revolving-leslie · Oct 14th 2023

Quote from chente

A Raspberry does not provide enough power for two USB mechanical drives simultaneously. You must use an external power supply, search the forum, there is information about this.

Well that does scupper plans to use the two drives (I was using two previously, but there you go). But even so, just having the one drive connected (the new one) is still producing this problem.

What's the optimum set up for use with RPIs then? Am I best to look into a SATA set up?

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If it is not a power issue, did you mount the filesystem?

I did indeed. As I say, went through the steps I've followed previously but the mount 'tick' just isn't showing. Drive says 'online'.

Thanks both for responses.

chente · Oct 14th 2023

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that does scupper plans to use the two drives

Because? Buy a power supply for the hard drives, or a case.

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But even so, just having the one drive connected (the new one) is still producing this problem.

There is something you are not doing right. Maybe you haven't mounted the filesystem after creating it, like macom said.

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What's the optimum set up for use with RPIs then?

An external hard drive enclosure.

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Am I best to look into a SATA set up?

Yeah. But it is not possible with Raspberry PI4. It will be with Raspberry PI5. Sata is always better than any USB connection. I would never trust a USB connection for a NAS.

revolving-leslie · Oct 14th 2023

Quote from chente

Because? Buy a power supply for the hard drives, or a case

Well because I've already bought the drive but I guess I'll just return it and use a powered enclosure isntead. Thanks for the tip.

Quote from chente

There is something you are not doing right. Maybe you haven't mounted the filesystem after creating it, like macom said

I have mounted it. I have tried unmoutning and remounting. I've tried reformatting the drive and restarting the process but it just won't give it a mountpoint/mount check mark. Here's how it looks:

Thanks for the other advice re. R PIs. You live and learn.

revolving-leslie · Nov 1st 2023

Hi all,

Since my last post, i've purchased a different hard drive to use with my powered USB HDD enclosure and I'm having the same problem. I have wiped the drive (EXT4), created/mounted the file system (that's all fine), but then it's not selectable to use as a shared folder. As with the previous screenshot, there's no mount point. I should say that this is just with the one drive (powered via the external enclosure). This set up worked fine for me in the past and essentially mimics my original setup (in my signature) but just swapping out the HDD in the enclosure, so I think something's going on with my OMV rather than hardware issues. Appreciate any further troubleshooting advice on this.

Thanks.

EDIT: just ssh'd into the machine and ran sudo fdisk -l and see the drive listed at the bottom:

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Disk /dev/sda: 1.82 TiB, 2000398934016 bytes, 3907029168 sectors
Disk model: ASM1153E
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 4096 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 4096 bytes / 4096 bytes
Disklabel type: gpt
Disk identifier: AA3D8E97-2D35-427B-B060-8C9F3BF1EA39

macom · Nov 1st 2023

Did you mount the filesystem from the GUI of OMV and on the CLI?

revolving-leslie · Nov 2nd 2023

Hello, thanks for the reply. Just the GUI (as before). I've seen a few posts that say to stick to the GUI but I just used the CLI to confirm the drive being registered by the system (I haven't actually mounted any drive with the CLI). Thanks.

macom · Nov 2nd 2023

please post the output of

lsblk

blkid

revolving-leslie · Nov 3rd 2023

lsblk:

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NAME        MAJ:MIN RM  SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINT
sda           8:0    0  1.8T  0 disk
└─sda1        8:1    0  1.8T  0 part
mmcblk0     179:0    0 29.7G  0 disk
├─mmcblk0p1 179:1    0  256M  0 part /boot
└─mmcblk0p2 179:2    0 29.5G  0 part /

blkid:

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/dev/mmcblk0p1: LABEL_FATBOOT="bootfs" LABEL="bootfs" UUID="0B22-2966" BLOCK_SIZE="512" TYPE="vfat" PARTUUID="39b8aa0c-01"
/dev/mmcblk0p2: LABEL="rootfs" UUID="3ad7386b-e1ae-4032-ae33-0c40f5ecc4ac" BLOCK_SIZE="4096" TYPE="ext4" PARTUUID="39b8aa0c-02"
/dev/sda1: UUID="805bdd45-eb02-4b7c-ab0b-af0e7df30b3f" BLOCK_SIZE="4096" TYPE="ext4" PARTUUID="cfd553a5-235d-4502-b859-5cf7b32e5bda"

Thanks.

macom · Nov 3rd 2023

Post your fstab

cat /etc/fstab

revolving-leslie · Nov 4th 2023

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proc            /proc           proc    defaults          0       0
PARTUUID=39b8aa0c-01  /boot           vfat    defaults          0       2
PARTUUID=39b8aa0c-02        /    ext4    noatime,nodiratime,defaults    0 1
# a swapfile is not a swap partition, no line here
#   use  dphys-swapfile swap[on|off]  for that
# >>> [openmediavault]
/dev/disk/by-uuid/fef97aeb-b887-4334-bdcb-ca42c0c70724        /srv/dev-disk-by-uuid-fef97aeb-b887-4334-bdcb-ca42c0c70724    ext4    defaults,nofail,user_xattr,usrjquota=aquota.user,grpjquota=aquota.group,jqfmt=vfsv0,acl    0 2
# <<< [openmediavault]

Thanks.

Soma · Nov 4th 2023

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EDIT: just ssh'd into the machine and ran sudo fdisk -l and see the drive listed at the bottom:

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/dev/sda1: UUID="805bdd45-eb02-4b7c-ab0b-af0e7df30b3f" BLOCK_SIZE="4096" TYPE="ext4" PARTUUID="cfd553a5-235d-4502-b859-5cf7b32e5bda"

This doesn't add up:

Your output from fdisk shows NO PARTITION on the drive except that it has a GPT header.

This is how it should look if it was partitioned:

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pi@panela:~ $ sudo fdisk -l /dev/sda
Disk /dev/sda: 3.64 TiB, 4000787030016 bytes, 7814037168 sectors
Disk model: WDC WD40EFAX-68J
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 4096 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 4096 bytes / 4096 bytes
Disklabel type: gpt
Disk identifier: B7213454-DD75-4405-87B1-197C15C1DFEE

Device     Start        End    Sectors  Size Type
/dev/sda1   2048 7814037134 7814035087  3.6T Linux filesystem

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UNLESS, you didn't post the complete output of sudo fdisk -l /dev/sda

Soma · Nov 4th 2023

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but just swapping out the HDD in the enclosure, so I think something's going on with my OMV rather than hardware issues.

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Disk model: ASM1153E

Let me throw darts here:

You swapped the drive inside the enclosure and reuse it to attach to OMV?

If you did, the issue isn't OMV, it's the enclosure. The Disk model that is passing to OMV is still the same but the UUID of the drive, surely is different.

OMV/Debian will want to see the UUID that you have mentioned on fstab:

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# >>> [openmediavault]
/dev/disk/by-uuid/fef97aeb-b887-4334-bdcb-ca42c0c70724        /srv/dev-disk-by-uuid-fef97aeb-b887-4334-bdcb-ca42c0c70724    ext4    defaults,nofail,user_xattr,usrjquota=aquota.user,grpjquota=aquota.group,jqfmt=vfsv0,acl    0 2
# <<< [openmediavault]

But instead, your drive is passing (according to blkid)

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/dev/sda1: UUID="805bdd45-eb02-4b7c-ab0b-af0e7df30b3f" BLOCK_SIZE="4096" TYPE="ext4" PARTUUID="cfd553a5-235d-4502-b859-5cf7b32e5bda"

SO, please post the output of:

sudo omv-showkey fstab

sudo omv-showkey mntent

sudo fdisk -l /dev/sd

revolving-leslie · Nov 5th 2023

Thanks for the help. I've tried the USB enclosure with the new drive in other machines and it works on those. It worked with the previous set up, as I say it was just the drive that needed swapping. This is now the 2nd brand new HDD I'm having the issue with. Both this one and the previous one I'd purchased worked fine on other machines.

I've even tried wiping the new HDD and creating the ext4 partition in Ubuntu. Have dragged some files there, seems to be working fine. I then try it with my OMV machine and I can mount it in there but it's the same issue. I'm not able to select it for a file system.

If there seems to be some discrepancy between the outputs i've pasted across posts, I wonder if it's because I've accidentally left the other main working drive in while doing the command line. I don't think I did but could be that, sorry if that's the case!

Anyway, here's the outputs of the commands you've asked for. Error with the last one i'm afraid.

sudo omv-showkey fstab:

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    <fstab>
      <!--
            <mntent>
                <uuid>xxxxxxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxxxxxxxxxx</uuid>
                <fsname>xxxxxxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxxxxxxxxxx|xxxx-xxxx|/dev/xxx</fsname>
                <dir>/xxx/yyy/zzz</dir>
                <type>none|ext2|ext3|ext4|xfs|jfs|iso9660|udf|...</type>
                <opts></opts>
                <freq>0</freq>
                <passno>0|1|2</passno>
                <hidden>0|1</hidden>
                <usagewarnthreshold>xxx</usagewarnthreshold>
                <comment>xxx</comment>
            </mntent>
            -->
      <mntent>
        <uuid>61dea4de-d097-48f2-803c-f9915e8b6e31</uuid>
        <fsname>/dev/disk/by-uuid/fef97aeb-b887-4334-bdcb-ca42c0c70724</fsname>
        <dir>/srv/dev-disk-by-uuid-fef97aeb-b887-4334-bdcb-ca42c0c70724</dir>
        <type>ext4</type>
        <opts>defaults,nofail,user_xattr,usrjquota=aquota.user,grpjquota=aquota.group,jqfmt=vfsv0,acl</opts>
        <freq>0</freq>
        <passno>2</passno>
        <hidden>0</hidden>
        <usagewarnthreshold>85</usagewarnthreshold>
        <comment>USBSmall2Tb</comment>
      </mntent>
      <mntent>
        <uuid>79684322-3eac-11ea-a974-63a080abab18</uuid>
        <fsname>/dev/disk/by-uuid/3ad7386b-e1ae-4032-ae33-0c40f5ecc4ac</fsname>
        <dir>/</dir>
        <type>ext4</type>
        <opts>noatime,nodiratime,defaults</opts>
        <freq>0</freq>
        <passno>1</passno>
        <hidden>1</hidden>
      </mntent>
      <mntent>
        <uuid>84f68425-05d9-43ef-a13b-2337f59b8853</uuid>
        <fsname>/dev/disk/by-uuid/a99a576a-4d21-4fb2-aeec-4af3c6381413</fsname>
        <dir>/srv/dev-disk-by-uuid-a99a576a-4d21-4fb2-aeec-4af3c6381413</dir>
        <type>ext4</type>
        <opts>defaults,nofail,user_xattr,usrjquota=aquota.user,grpjquota=aquota.group,jqfmt=vfsv0,acl</opts>
        <freq>0</freq>
        <passno>2</passno>
        <hidden>0</hidden>
        <usagewarnthreshold>85</usagewarnthreshold>
        <comment>BackupDrive,ExternalUSBEnclosure</comment>
      </mntent>
    </fstab>

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sudo omv-showkey mntent:

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            <mntent>
                <uuid>xxxxxxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxxxxxxxxxx</uuid>
                <fsname>xxxxxxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxxxxxxxxxx|xxxx-xxxx|/dev/xxx</fsname>
                <dir>/xxx/yyy/zzz</dir>
                <type>none|ext2|ext3|ext4|xfs|jfs|iso9660|udf|...</type>
                <opts></opts>
                <freq>0</freq>
                <passno>0|1|2</passno>
                <hidden>0|1</hidden>
                <usagewarnthreshold>xxx</usagewarnthreshold>
                <comment>xxx</comment>
            </mntent>
      <mntent>
        <uuid>61dea4de-d097-48f2-803c-f9915e8b6e31</uuid>
        <fsname>/dev/disk/by-uuid/fef97aeb-b887-4334-bdcb-ca42c0c70724</fsname>
        <dir>/srv/dev-disk-by-uuid-fef97aeb-b887-4334-bdcb-ca42c0c70724</dir>
        <type>ext4</type>
        <opts>defaults,nofail,user_xattr,usrjquota=aquota.user,grpjquota=aquota.group,jqfmt=vfsv0,acl</opts>
        <freq>0</freq>
        <passno>2</passno>
        <hidden>0</hidden>
        <usagewarnthreshold>85</usagewarnthreshold>
        <comment>USBSmall2Tb</comment>
      </mntent>
      <mntent>
        <uuid>79684322-3eac-11ea-a974-63a080abab18</uuid>
        <fsname>/dev/disk/by-uuid/3ad7386b-e1ae-4032-ae33-0c40f5ecc4ac</fsname>
        <dir>/</dir>
        <type>ext4</type>
        <opts>noatime,nodiratime,defaults</opts>
        <freq>0</freq>
        <passno>1</passno>
        <hidden>1</hidden>
      </mntent>
      <mntent>
        <uuid>84f68425-05d9-43ef-a13b-2337f59b8853</uuid>
        <fsname>/dev/disk/by-uuid/a99a576a-4d21-4fb2-aeec-4af3c6381413</fsname>
        <dir>/srv/dev-disk-by-uuid-a99a576a-4d21-4fb2-aeec-4af3c6381413</dir>
        <type>ext4</type>
        <opts>defaults,nofail,user_xattr,usrjquota=aquota.user,grpjquota=aquota.group,jqfmt=vfsv0,acl</opts>
        <freq>0</freq>
        <passno>2</passno>
        <hidden>0</hidden>
        <usagewarnthreshold>85</usagewarnthreshold>
        <comment>BackupDrive,ExternalUSBEnclosure</comment>
      </mntent>

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sudo fdisk -l /dev/sd:

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fdisk: cannot open /dev/sd: No such file or directory

Thank you so much again!

revolving-leslie · Nov 5th 2023

For what it's worth here's full the output of sudo fdisk -l /dev/sda. Perhaps, as you suggested, I have mis-pasted in my previous posts! Sorry about that.

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Disk /dev/sda: 1.82 TiB, 2000398934016 bytes, 3907029168 sectors
Disk model: ASM1153E        
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 4096 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 4096 bytes / 4096 bytes
Disklabel type: gpt
Disk identifier: A5B921C0-050B-42E9-BF76-528917DCF499

Device     Start        End    Sectors  Size Type
/dev/sda1   2048 3907028991 3907026944  1.8T Linux filesystem

Soma · Nov 6th 2023

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Anyway, here's the outputs of the commands you've asked for. Error with the last one i'm afraid.

Let's be practical:

According to the outputs and the OMV dB (those commands), you should have 2x drives mounted and visible on the GUI.

Both UUIDs match from either omv-showkey mntent and fstab

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      <mntent>
        <uuid>61dea4de-d097-48f2-803c-f9915e8b6e31</uuid>
        <fsname>/dev/disk/by-uuid/fef97aeb-b887-4334-bdcb-ca42c0c70724</fsname>
        <dir>/srv/dev-disk-by-uuid-fef97aeb-b887-4334-bdcb-ca42c0c70724</dir>
        <type>ext4</type>
        <opts>defaults,nofail,user_xattr,usrjquota=aquota.user,grpjquota=aquota.group,jqfmt=vfsv0,acl</opts>
        <freq>0</freq>
        <passno>2</passno>
        <hidden>0</hidden>
        <usagewarnthreshold>85</usagewarnthreshold>
        <comment>USBSmall2Tb</comment>
      </mntent>


      <mntent>
        <uuid>84f68425-05d9-43ef-a13b-2337f59b8853</uuid>
        <fsname>/dev/disk/by-uuid/a99a576a-4d21-4fb2-aeec-4af3c6381413</fsname>
        <dir>/srv/dev-disk-by-uuid-a99a576a-4d21-4fb2-aeec-4af3c6381413</dir>
        <type>ext4</type>
        <opts>defaults,nofail,user_xattr,usrjquota=aquota.user,grpjquota=aquota.group,jqfmt=vfsv0,acl</opts>
        <freq>0</freq>
        <passno>2</passno>
        <hidden>0</hidden>
        <usagewarnthreshold>85</usagewarnthreshold>
        <comment>BackupDrive,ExternalUSBEnclosure</comment>
      </mntent>

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This will have to be seen on the GUI filesystems unless you are removing drives.

OMV, expects both drives to be seen all the time (unless you use the USB backup plugin on one of them, which I don't think is the case)

So, powerdown the Pi, plug both drives and boot up.

Show again, the outputs of:

blkid

lsblk

cat /etc/fstab

sudo omv-showkey fstab

Mounted file system but no mount 'tick' and not selectable

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