@wetriner said in Use of external hard-drives (exFAT) for SAMBA share and rom-storage?:
In smb.conf in /etc/samba, there's a section at the bottom with all your shared directories. For example:
[configs] comment = configs path = "/opt/retropie/configs" writeable = yes guest ok = yes create mask = 0644 directory mask = 0755 force user = piAll you should really have to do is follow this as a template and change the path, comment, and name. Your usb external hard drive probably gets mounted to /media/usb, although there's probably a by-id directory that you could use in case of wanting to distinguish between two or more drives.
You can store roms on it of course. The question would be really how you would want to implement the ability to use them. You could mount your usb drive straight into your roms directory, so it would just override everything on the sd if plugged in. You could also create a symbolic link to a subdirectory in each of your rom folders, so your hard drive roms would show up as a directory within each system's gamelist. Or you could make a copy of each of the systems you want in es_systems.cfg and have those point to something like /media/usb/snes.
so the exFAT format isn't problematic after all?