Retropie Drive Partition Issue with Kodi

[DaveWins182]

I recently decided to turn my Retropie into a mini-media center by installing Kodi and adding a 5tb external drive but I’m having issues with it changing the drive order on reboot. Let me explain.

So my 5tb drive is partitioned into 3 drives. I have. 500gb drive as my USB mount for my games for the retropie itself. Then the remaining 4tb is split into 2 separate 2tb partitions, one for Movies and on for Television shows. The FAT32 format tool I used only allowed me to go up to 2tb per partition hence the formatting (I don’t know if it’s a FAT32 limitation or just the program itself), but thats how it’s currently set up.

My issue is that when I reboot the Retropie to add games or whatnot it will sometimes rearrange the order of the drives and Kodi loses the location.

Example:
USB0 is the mounted drive
USB1 is Movies
USB2 is Television Shows

If I reboot the retropie it will turn out

USB0 mounted drive
USB1 will be Television Shows
USB2 will be Movies

And because the drives(partitions really) are listed in a different order it loses the location of the movies and shows.

Any idea how I could remedy this? Thanks in advance!

Also, I’m running a Raspberry PI4 with a pretty much fresh install of Retropie outside the addition of Kodi.

[mitu]

@DaveWins182 said in Retropie Drive Partition Issue with Kodi:

Any idea how I could remedy this? Thanks in advance!

Don't use /dev/sdX[Number] in your /etc/fstab, add the mount point based on the partition's UUID(s) (see https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Fstab#File_system_UUIDs). This way the order of the USB devices is not relevant and the mount points will be always correct.