retropie-mount automatic mount method now working properly - emulation station is missing some consoles

davidr

I have a 400gb sd card loaded with roms that I wanted moved over to a usb SSD so I decided to follow the automatic mount method. Formated my drive with exfat and created a retropie-mount folder. Plugged it into the usb port and viola it started copying over all my roms.

Wow. 3 days later process completed. Sure there was a better way to do that.

Now when I restart the pi I am missing some of the consoles and all their roms (megadrive, tg16, etc) very odd.

The roms folder is the same and with all gamelists.xml. Did an rsync to compare looks good.

If I shutdown and disconnect the usb drive retropie uses the roms on the sdcard and the consoles are back again.

So I'm not sure what is missing from retropie-mount folder that would cause this.

My retropie build is as of Nov 21, 2019.

Should I switch to the manual method?

mitu

If you restart EmulationStation - after booting and noticing the missing folders - do the folders come up ? The drive might not be fully mounted by the time EmulationStation starts up, so it might not be able to read those folders.

davidr

@mitu I looked at the es_settings.cfg for emulation station and oddly the ones missing didn't have a correct entry pointing to the rom dir on ~/Retropie/roms. Odd that it would even show up when booting with just the sdcard. So when I corrected those entries the consoles do show up.

But now I tried renaming the roms folder on the sdcard "roms_bak" and creating an empty roms folder on the sd card.

Now when I boot all consoles disappear and all I see are my colections with 0 games in them. Seems like I need to keep all the roms on the sd card so whats the point of doing this in the first place.

I want to move my roms to a larger hard drive than my sdcard so I can add many more games and systems and keep a tiny sized sdcard just for booting.

mitu

@davidr said in retropie-mount automatic mount method now working properly - emulation station is missing some consoles:

Now when I boot all consoles disappear and all I see are my colections with 0 games in them. Seems like I need to keep all the roms on the sd card so whats the point of doing this in the first place.

Again, the same advice - restart ES once the startup finishes. If your ROMs show up, then you need to delay the ES startup until your drive is mounted and the USB rom folders show up.