Multiple usb drives into one
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Ok so I'm filling up my pi 64 GB USB. I have 3 other 64gb drives as they came in a pack. Is there a way to run multiple usb devices as one drive from a hub so it would detect it as a 256gb drive?
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While technically possible, it's not something easily done for a novice and I wouldn't recommend it (RAID over USB is not quite reliable).
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It can be done if you split out different romsets across different drives and arrange the mount points manually.
So for example I have roms on a 16gb usb and disc images (psx, segacd) and bios on a 64gb drive.
Here is an example of the set up in /etc/fstab:LABEL=TOSHIBA16 /mnt/toshiba16 vfat defaults,noatime,umask=0000,uid=1000,gid=1000,nofail,x-systemd.device-timeout=15 0 0
/mnt/toshiba16/roms /home/pi/RetroPie/roms none bind,nofail,x-systemd.device-timeout=15 0 0
LABEL=TOSHIBA64 /mnt/toshiba64 ext4 defaults,noatime,nofail,x-systemd.device-timeout=15 0 2
/mnt/toshiba64/roms/psx /home/pi/RetroPie/roms/psx none bind,nofail,x-systemd.device-timeout=15 0 0
/mnt/toshiba64/roms/segacd /home/pi/RetroPie/roms/segacd none bind,nofail,x-systemd.device-timeout=15 0 0
/mnt/toshiba64/BIOS /home/pi/RetroPie/BIOS none bind,nofail,x-systemd.device-timeout=15 0 0
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