Drives not showing up

[grajczyk]

I have been running around in circles for a few days now. I have 4 1TB drives in an external SATA enclosure. I can see the drives just fine. I have completed the Wiki "Mount Shares Locally" and my drives mounted ok with the "service mount_shares_locally start" command when tested per the instructions in the wiki. I followed the directions and took the drives out of my fstab file as suggested. I moved my shares to drive1, drive2, drive3 and drive4. When I reboot my drives won't mount. After reboot I can perform "service mount_shares_locally start" and I get "* Mounting Samba shares locally... Then Mounting share [Music] Retrying with upper case share name mount error (6): No such device or address".

When I look in /var/hda/drives with an ls I see nothing. I can do a "hda-diskmount" and my disks mount and show up in the HDA.

The problem is I had my shares setup on drive1, drive2, drive3 and drive4. after the disks mount I get the same "* Mounting Samba shares locally... Then Mounting share [Music] Retrying with upper case share name mount error (6): No such device or address" with the "service mount_shares_locally start" command and I now have drive5, drive6, drive7 and drive8 show up in my Shares-->Storage Pool in my HDA. My drive1, drive2, drive3 and drive4 are still there with check marks as well.

I setup my shares for drive5, drive6, drive7 and drive8 again and check the drives in my Shares-->Storage Pool. I reboot and now have drive1 through drive8 show up in my /var/had/files/drives folder. No drives are mounted again. If I do a hda-diskmount again … you guessed it…drive9, drive10, drive11 and drive12 show up in my Shares-->Storage Pool on the HDA.

I am at a loss. Any help is greatly appreciated.

[bigfoot65]

Hello,

The drives have to be in the /etc/fstab or they will not mount on reboot. Each time you run hda-diskmount, you will get a different mount point.

Recommend you remove all the drive1, drive2, etc and then unmount those drives. Once done, do a reboot and run the hda-diskmount. Then put the info in the /etc/fstab.

You might want to disable mount_shares_locally temporarily until you get everything sorted out.

[grajczyk]

Awesome Bigfoot!

I will try that when I get home tonight. I had them in the fstab but the following note on the mount shares locally wiki threw me.

"Note: if you used /etc/rc.local and /etc/fstab to mount shares locally in the past, you can remove what you added in those files now. The above initd script replaces all this."

On wiki "http://wiki.amahi.org/index.php/Mount_Shares_Locally"

Maybe this note should be changed because this is why I took the shares out of my fstab file.

Thank you for the information Bigfoot...have a great day!

[bigfoot65]

Yes it needs to be clarified. What the intent was for those who added all the entries to mount shares locally to the /etc/fstab file, not the actual drive mounting.

I can see where that is misleading. I will have to try and make it clearer.