I have my HDD setup, mounted with external power supply to Rpi3b. I am connected from windows via SMB (network tab in file explorer).
The drive has lots of free space
mnt/wd5tb0abd : /dev/sdb1 | ext4 | Capacity: 4.5T | Used: 37.3G
When I try to copy over a load of large files I’m getting a popup that says there is not enough space on DietPi. You need additional GB to copy these files.
Any ideas?
Did you modified the SMB target location? Can you share your SMB conf file?
Don’t think I touched that file
smb.conf
[global]
browseable = yes
create mask = 0664
directory mask = 0775
valid users = dietpierver
writeable = yes
max connections = 8/var/log/samba/log.%m
max log size = 1000
syslog only = no
syslog = 0
panic action = /usr/share/samba/panic-action %d
passwd program = /usr/bin/passwd %u
passwd chat = *Enter\snew\s*\spassword:* %n\n *Retype\snew\s*\sp>
pam password change = yes
passwd program = /usr/bin/passwd %u
passwd chat = *Enter\snew\s*\spassword:* %n\n *Retype\snew\s*\sp>
pam password change = yes
passwd program = /usr/bin/passwd %u
passwd chat = *Enter\snew\s*\spassword:* %n\n *Retype\snew\s*\sp>
pam password change = yes
[dietpi]map to guest = bad userll
disable spoolss = yese
load printers = no
[dietpi]printcap name = /dev/null
disable spoolss = yese
path = /mntask = 0775
[dietpi]browseable = yesetpi
comment = DietPi Share
max connpath = /mntask = 0775
browseable = yesetpi
create mask = 0664
max conndirectory mask = 0775
valid users = dietpi
writeable = yes
max connections = 8
browseable = yes
create mask = 0664
directory mask = 0775
Default path is path = /mnt/dietpi_userdata and if you did not touch this file, it is still set to that path.
You would need to change the root path for samba:
https://dietpi.com/docs/software/file_servers/#__tabbed_2_4
hmm path seems to be something else???
Our default looks like this
Quite some difference to yours. But we could setup our default conf file if you like.
Ok so if I just update the path to the default it should work?
you need to use the path your disk is located on. or at least the directory you like to use as target
I don’t understand the path is currently set to /mnt (formatting got messed up when copying on mobile) and I can access everything on the system I just can’t copy - it’s telling me there’s only 20 GB left - I’m trying to copy 55gb and it’s saying it needs another 30gb
Can you check df -h /mnt/
Hmm getting somewhere
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/root 29G 9.2G 19G 34% /
So even though I have 10tb of external drives inside /mnt it’s still only showing 29GB?
Also I did a update the other day and now Plex can’t find any media, but I guess that’s another problem altogether 
Hm it does not show /mnt, it shows /dev/root.
Did you mount the drive correctly?
What does it show in dietpi-drive_manager?
DietPi-Drive_Manager
Please select a drive to see available options.
││ - User data location: RootFS (/mnt/dietpi_userdata)
││
││ ●─ mmcblk0 ──────────────────────────────────────
││ / : /dev/mmcblk0p2 | ext4 | Capacity: 28.6G | Used:
││ /boot : /dev/mmcblk0p1 | vfat | Capacity: 127M | Used:
││ ●─ sdb ──────────────────────────────────────────
││ /mnt/wd5tb0abd : /dev/sdb1 | ext4 | Capacity: 4.5T | Used: 37.7G
││ ●─ sda ──────────────────────────────────────────
││ /mnt/wd5tb183a : /dev/sda1 | ext4 | Capacity: 4.5T | Used: 29.8G
I think samba is still not using your external drive.
Did you do
sed -i '/path = /c\path = /mnt/wd5tb0abd' /etc/samba/smb.conf
systemctl restart nmbd smbd
?
If you want both partitions make available, you would need to create another block in smb.conf for that.
Is this not using samba on windows?
I guess SAMBA software is just getting the available disk space from the initial mount point /mnt. It is not that super intelligent software who seems to be aware of your 2 attached WD HDD. Probably better to create individual samba shares for your HDD instead of using /mnt
OK so to do that I can do as @Jappe suggested?
sed -i '/path = /c\path = /mnt/wd5tb0abd' /etc/samba/smb.conf
sed -i '/path = /c\path = /mnt/wd5tb183a' /etc/samba/smb.conf
systemctl restart nmbd smbd
Nope, you will overwrite your path config.
Better to create completely new configuration block, to have 2 separate shares at the end.
like
[dietpi_wd1]
comment = DietPi Share WD1
path = /mnt/wd5tb0abd
browseable = yes
create mask = 0664
directory mask = 0775
valid users = dietpi
writeable = yes
max connections = 1
[dietpi_wd2]
comment = DietPi Share WD2
path = /mnt/wd5tb183a
browseable = yes
create mask = 0664
directory mask = 0775
valid users = dietpi
writeable = yes
max connections = 1
Alright! Nice one it’s copying over!
OK now to figure out what’s happened to plex
if you wish plex to access both, you might need to create a 3rd share pointing to /mnt. I don’t use Plex, not sure if you can specify 2 different samba source
the plex issue is something to do with the drive I guess getting this error
Please check that the file exists and the necessary drive is mounted.
And it’s not longer showing in drive_manager - I’ve checked all connections - light is on - confused?
Apparently it’s healthy
Ahhhhh ok finally it’s showed up again as not mounted - how can I get this to work as it did before? Do I have to give it the same name when it was mounted the first time?
Thanks again for your time in sorting this mess out!!!
