Hello all, I’m quite enjoying my new ODROID C2 running DietPi, though I’m a total novice.
I have it set up running Plex Media Server, Kodi, and PiHole. I have a 2TB compact Seagate drive connected for media which worked perfectly for several days, but the last 2 days is saying Read-Only when I try to add files by FTP.
The 2TB drive is powered by the C2 (it has no auxillary power input, the C2 is using the Odroid 2A power supply)
The 2TB drive is formatted HFS+ unjournaled
I am using ProFTP in the Dietpi configuration to make changes to the media
I have moved the user data to the external media drive
I have checked the dietpi-drive_manager and it says the drive status “online and ready for use” and the Read only is “Disabled”
When I FTP in and try to add a file (like was previously working) here is what I get (Filezilla2 for Mac):
Status: Connecting to 192.168.2.49:21...
Status: Connection established, waiting for welcome message...
Status: Logged in
Status: Retrieving directory listing...
Status: Directory listing of "/" successful
Status: Retrieving directory listing of "/TV Shows"...
Status: Directory listing of "/TV Shows" successful
Status: Creating directory '/TV Shows/New directory'...
Command: MKD New directory
Response: 550 New directory: Read-only file system
I don’t understand all the parts of the question. I don’t think I have any user/groups set up, I still use the default login only for the device (root/dietpi), and within Plex I only have one user account.
I installed DietPi on the eMMC card, after getting DietPi installed I attached the external hard drive, in dietpi-drive_manager I transferred the user files to the external hard drive. The Plex media is going to the external hard drive, and when I connect by FTP to the device I could (last week) add files from my computer into this media directory (confirmed in drive manager the disk usage shows the media is going to the external drive).
Without a GUI file manager I don’t know how to see where the files are in the bigger picture. When I login with FTP the directory has Movies, Pictures, Music, etc. folders that I did not create (can’t say I’m sure if it was Plex or Kodi), and I can’t go up any further in the drive hierarchy.
What’s so strange to me is this was working fine last week, I could add, change, and delete files to the media drive over FPT.
If you reboot your system does it go read/write again
I know on my external, I had to put a /etc/crontab entry to touch the harddrive every 30 min to prevent it going to sleep
In /etc/crontab I added
30 * * * * root /bin/touch /dev/sda1 &>/dev/null
Command line in Linux is alot like DOS
cd = change directory
dir or ls = list directory
cd … goes back a directory
it’s a bit tricky and has a pretty hefty learning curve, but Linux is pretty straight forward
Have you tried to install webmin (GUI front end for alot of services on a Linux system, nice thing is you log in to http://ip.of.your.OPI:10000)
also typing mount will show you the mounted partitions/drives, look for /dev/sdb or something like that, that should tell you were the mounted external drive is located
mine shows /dev/sda1 on /mnt/a bunch of numbers (that is where your personal files are)
When I reboot and try accessing the drive right away it still says read-only.
When I check ‘mount’ it gives me a long output, in two places I see the long drive name that I recognize for the 2TB external (recognize from seeing it in dietpi-drive_manager)
...
systemd-1 on /mnt/2f9afb70-312c-35d2-9c73-5c7a1ae90777 type autofs (rw,relatime,fd=24,pgrp=1,timeout=300,minproto=5,maxproto=5,direct)
...
/dev/sda1 on /mnt/2f9afb70-312c-35d2-9c73-5c7a1ae90777 type hfsplus (ro,noatime,umask=22,uid=0,gid=0,nls=utf8)
...
The second occurence I assume that ‘ro’ means read-only? Hmm. Yet in drive manager it says “Read only: disabled”.
Thanks for the help, I ended up starting over from scratch with fresh DietPi on the eMMC, and this time formatted the 2TB external to ext4 from within the DietPi Drive Manager. Going on 2-3 days with no problem :crossingfingers:
