Trying to spread files across two different hard drives
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I don't have much experience with this, but I thought I read in a plex setup guide that they don't recommend using the /media folder for secondary drive mounts because ubuntu has funny permissions / ownership issues with that. They suggest using /disks instead.
Does this sound plausible?
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@construkt Seems fine. Can't understand why you get an error copying.
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Maybe my smb.conf is messed up? Here it is here: https://pastebin.com/RZWC8qtn
I've been trying to make it show up in Windows on the network with no success so I've followed a few guides trying to make that happen. I still have to type in \retropie in windows explorer because it wont show up in my network automatically. Still working through that, but it's possible I put in some settings incorrectly.
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@construkt said in Trying to spread files across two different hard drives:
Maybe my smb.conf is messed up? Here it is here: https://pastebin.com/RZWC8qtn
Is the error showing up when you try to copy over the network ? I though you were trying to copy from the 1st disc to the 2nd.
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@YFZdude it automatically mounted it to /media/pi, so I just didn't change it.
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No, sorry I meant over the network. I'm transferring files from my Windows machine to the mounted folders, which are also shared on the network.
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What's the point ? You already have a desktop available, why don't you transfer them directly ? Regardless, your share definition might be the problem - since Samba doesn't know you have more space available on
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I definitely could. I did get the necessary programs for doing such on it, but I have more tools available on my desktop, and a lot more real estate. Plus my desktop has 3 large displays and is on a desk while the NUC is sitting on an entertainment center that is awkwardly low.
My share definition? So it's just Samba not understanding how the folders are connected then? I'm really just worried that I'll fill up the primary drive more and won't ever be able to transfer anything across the network to the retropie box.
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@construkt Use the RetroPie-Setup script to restore the default Samba shares, I think it should work better than the current share situation.
Plus my desktop has 3 large displays and is on a desk while the NUC is sitting on an entertainment center that is awkwardly low.
Just SSH to your RetroPie and use
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@mitu alright thanks ill give that a shot
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