Problem to mount HFS+ HDD with RetroPie

iMacosiris

Hi guys
Hope you can help me with this
I have my RetroPie configure with an USB stick and USB HDD (the disk has HFS+ format)
I follow this guide to move the roms : https://github.com/RetroPie/RetroPie-Setup/wiki/Running-ROMs-from-a-USB-drive

All works great, but I like to mount the disk and add the info in the fstab so I follow the same link ( https://github.com/RetroPie/RetroPie-Setup/wiki/Running-ROMs-from-a-USB-drive)
but I got an error when I try to boot after I change my fstab.
I see other post and I fix the HFS+ journal

This is the current info in my system

pi@retropie:~ $ ls -l /dev/disk/by-uuid/
total 0
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 Apr 25 04:17 1D8D-D42B -> ../../sda1
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 Apr 25 04:17 36e09f00-1197-377f-8f97-0901843273f0 -> ../../sdb1
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 Apr 25 04:17 b5bfbb14-56d1-4eab-a831-0d17cd711a6a -> ../../sda2
pi@retropie:~ $ sudo lsblk -o UUID,NAME,FSTYPE,SIZE,MOUNTPOINT,LABEL,MODEL
UUID                                 NAME   FSTYPE    SIZE MOUNTPOINT  LABEL    MODEL
                                     sda             28.7G                      Ultra Fit       
1D8D-D42B                            |-sda1 vfat      240M /media/usb1 boot     
b5bfbb14-56d1-4eab-a831-0d17cd711a6a `-sda2 ext4     28.4G /           retropie 
                                     sdb            931.5G                      MQ01ABD100      
36e09f00-1197-377f-8f97-0901843273f0 `-sdb1 hfsplus 931.5G /media/usb0 ROMS     
pi@retropie:~ $ sudo blkid
/dev/sda1: SEC_TYPE="msdos" LABEL="boot" UUID="1D8D-D42B" TYPE="vfat" PARTUUID="6397c987-01"
/dev/sda2: LABEL="retropie" UUID="b5bfbb14-56d1-4eab-a831-0d17cd711a6a" TYPE="ext4" PARTUUID="6397c987-02"
/dev/sdb1: UUID="36e09f00-1197-377f-8f97-0901843273f0" LABEL="ROMS" TYPE="hfsplus"
pi@retropie:~ $

As you can see I install and update all software for HFS+

pi@retropie:~ $ sudo apt-get install hfsplus hfsutils hfsprogs
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
hfsplus is already the newest version (1.0.4-15).
hfsprogs is already the newest version (332.25-11+b1).
hfsutils is already the newest version (3.2.6-13).
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 7 not upgraded.

My fstab I have to comment the entry for the HDD


proc            /proc           proc    defaults          0       0
PARTUUID=6397c987-01  /boot           vfat    defaults          0       2
PARTUUID=6397c987-02  /               ext4    defaults,noatime  0       1
# a swapfile is not a swap partition, no line here
#   use  dphys-swapfile swap[on|off]  for that
#UUID=36e09f00-1197-377f-8f97-0901843273f0 /mnt/retrorom /home/pi/RetroPie      hfsplus    force,rw,nofail  0       0

So my question is what I doing wrong ? should I need to disable the USB transfer daemon ?
I confuse.
Well hope some one can help me
If you need more info just ask please !
Thanks in advance
Best Regards

mitu

#UUID=36e09f00-1197-377f-8f97-0901843273f0 /mnt/retrorom /home/pi/RetroPie      hfsplus    force,rw,nofail  0       0

I think the line above is wrong, you have an extra entry (/mnt/retrorom) which shouldn't be there. Also, you should add the options to allow the pi user to write to the disk, otherwise you'll get permission errors.

should I need to disable the USB transfer daemon ?

If you're using the manual method, then yes, should disable the service added by the usbromservice package.

iMacosiris

@mitu Thanks a lot
I finally got the disk mount , but now I see the error " WE CAN'T FIND ANY SYSTEM"
I check and find the permission OK and I can write in the volume
I can't figure why the system can't finds the rom

pi@retropie:/ $ sudo lsblk -o UUID,NAME,FSTYPE,SIZE,MOUNTPOINT,LABEL,MODEL
UUID                                 NAME   FSTYPE    SIZE MOUNTPOINT        LABEL    MODEL
                                     sda             28.7G                            Ultra Fit       
1D8D-D42B                            |-sda1 vfat      240M /boot             boot     
b5bfbb14-56d1-4eab-a831-0d17cd711a6a `-sda2 ext4     28.4G /                 retropie 
                                     sdb            931.5G                            035-1RK172      
67E3-17ED                            |-sdb1 vfat      200M                   EFI      
823e6ab6-188c-3ef0-bfac-8162cca79436 `-sdb2 hfsplus 931.1G /home/pi/RetroPie ROMS

pi@retropie:/ $ df -h
Filesystem      Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/root        28G  6.7G   21G  25% /
devtmpfs        244M     0  244M   0% /dev
tmpfs           248M  4.0K  248M   1% /dev/shm
tmpfs           248M  6.8M  241M   3% /run
tmpfs           5.0M  4.0K  5.0M   1% /run/lock
tmpfs           248M     0  248M   0% /sys/fs/cgroup
/dev/sdb2       932G  266G  666G  29% /home/pi/RetroPie
/dev/sda1       240M   23M  217M  10% /boot
tmpfs            50M     0   50M   0% /run/user/1000

my fstab

proc            /proc           proc    defaults          0       0
PARTUUID=6397c987-01  /boot           vfat    defaults          0       2
PARTUUID=6397c987-02  /               ext4    defaults,noatime  0       1
# a swapfile is not a swap partition, no line here
#   use  dphys-swapfile swap[on|off]  for that
UUID=823e6ab6-188c-3ef0-bfac-8162cca79436       /home/pi/RetroPie       hfsplus force,auto,uid=1000,users,rw    0       0

I create a directory inside the /home/pi/Retropie with out any problem the owner inside RetroPie is the pi user
Any ideas ???

iMacosiris

Also I remove the usbromservice to avoid any issue

mitu

@iMacosiris said in Problem to mount HFS+ HDD with RetroPie:

I finally got the disk mount , but now I see the error " WE CAN'T FIND ANY SYSTEM"

Did you copy the ROMs folders to the mounted partition ? If you disabled the usbromservice service, this doesn't happen automatically. You need to follow all the steps in the docs for manually mounting - one of which is the transfer of the $HOME/RetroPie contents to the USB folder partition.

iMacosiris

@mitu Thanks a lot with that final touch works !!!
Thanks a lot for your help !
Br