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    Cannot mount ext4 external USB drive

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      weirdocollector
      last edited by weirdocollector

      Hi,

      my RetroPie installation fails at boot when trying to mount my external ext4 USB drive.

      I've followed the instruction on the wiki, and after mounting manually (when I issued the df command the USB drive didn't show up in the list) my drive on /media/usb0 with:

      sudo mount -t ext4 /dev/sda1 /media/usb0

      I've moved all the needed file on the drive with:

      sudo mv -v /home/pi/RetroPie/ /media/usb0/

      After that, I've modified the /etc/fstab file adding this line:

      UUID=xxx-xxx-xxx /home/pi/RetroPie ext4 nofail,user,umask=0000 0 2

      where xxx-xxx-xxx is my drive's UUID.

      Despite that, when RetoPie starts I get the FAILED message when it tries to mount my external drive.

      I previously tried the same with the same drive formatted in NTFS, and everything went as described in the wiki.

      Any suggestion ?

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