Problem transferring roms to thumb drive
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@mitu ok, this still isn't working. On restart, all games are missing. If I take the usb drive out, they come back. USBromservice is disabled.
I moved all of my PSX games (5 hours) to the usb drive in the /home/pi/extra/psx folder.
This is the autostart.sh file:
This is the fstab file:
@mitu any ideas?
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@Drdave79 You're mounting the disc on
/home/pi/RetroPie
, instead of/home/pi/RetroPie/extra
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@mitu So I need to change the fstab file or the autostart.sh file?
And the subfolder structure on the usb drive is /home/pi/extra. Do I need to change it to /home/pi/RetroPie/extra?
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@mitu ok, so I changed the fstab to read UUID=1808-1615 /home/pi/extra... which matches the subfolder structure on the USB drive and it booted up with the rest of the roms ok. But PSX is missing. It's not seeing them on the USB drive.
Is the 3rd line of the autostart.sh file telling the system to replace the location of the PSX roms from the sd card to the usb drive? If so, it appears correct.
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If you're starting the File Manager, do you see the
psx
folder in the/home/pi/extra
folder ? What's the output of themount
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@mitu I'm using WinSCP, but not sure how I can see the USB drive from that? If I pull the USB drive and plug it into the PC I can see them. How can I see the output of the mount command? Do you need me to do something from the Pi itself?
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@Drdave79 said in Problem transferring roms to thumb drive:
I'm using WinSCP, but not sure how I can see the USB drive from that?
If the drive is mounted on
/home/pi/extra
, then browse that folder and see what's underneath.How can I see the output of the mount command? Do you need me to do something from the Pi itself?
Doesn't WinSCP offers a way to run a remote command ? Just run
mount
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@Drdave79 I don't see the
psx
roms folder being mounted - if you manually execute themount
command fromautostart.sh
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@mitu I'm sorry Mitu, I know you're trying to help and I appreciate it, but I'm going to need more help/instruction to answer your question. What do you want me to do exactly?
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@Drdave79 Run the next command from WinSCP (copy the command and paste it there) just like you've run the previous
mount
command:sudo mount -o bind /home/pi/extra/psx /home/pi/RetroPie/roms/psx
then restart EmulationStation and see if your PS1 games show up.
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@mitu said in Problem transferring roms to thumb drive:
sudo mount -o bind /home/pi/extra/psx /home/pi/RetroPie/roms/psx
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So, back to the 1st question - do you have a
psx
folder under/home/pi/extra
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@mitu On the usb drive, yes. /home/pi/extra/psx. All of the roms are in there.
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Hm, I think I've got the command wrong. Try this:
sudo mount --bind /home/pi/extra/psx /home/pi/RetroPie/roms/psx
and restart EmulationStation. If that works, replace the
mount
command fromautostart.sh
accordingly and see if it works after a reboot.#... rest of the commands from `autostart.sh` sudo mount --bind /home/pi/extra/psx /home/pi/RetroPie/roms/psx emulationstation #auto
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@mitu said in Problem transferring roms to thumb drive:
sudo mount --bind /home/pi/extra/psx /home/pi/RetroPie/roms/psx
Unfortunately still not working:
This is the USB drive path:
Also, after moving all of the roms to the USB drive, the home/pi/RetroPie/roms/psx folder on the SD card is empty. Does that matter?
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@Drdave79 said in Problem transferring roms to thumb drive:
Unfortunately still not working:
Try adding the command directly in
autostart.sh
.Also, after moving all of the roms to the USB drive, the home/pi/RetroPie/roms/psx folder on the SD card is empty. Does that matter?
No, it doesn't.
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@Drdave79 said in Problem transferring roms to thumb drive:
Assuming I got the 1808-1615 correct.
Yes, that's correct - the output from the
mount
command showed that/home/pi/extra
is correctly mounted from the external disc.No idea why it's not working, the
usbromservice
uses a similar approach to mount theroms
folder (i.e.mount --bind
).
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