How do I create folders on external Hard Drives?

Troubleshooting
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so this is I guess a very dum question but I can’t get to create folders on external hard drives (for sabnzbd and respective my media library)

I mounted and formatted both hard drives via the diet-drive manager
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then I tried to “cd” into the hard drives (e.g. /dev/sdb1/ ) in the terminal as “root”. and after the mkdir a folder. but already for “cd” here it says:

-bash: cd: /dev/sdb1/: Not a directory

so cannot even get to the hard disc to create a folder.

when going in the sabnzbd settings to the hard drive it says I have no access to the drive (I assume sabnzbd doesn’t run as root user)

sorry im a total noob and in the beginning of learning

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First, drive need to be mounted. For this, select the drive inside drive manager and specify the mount point. Once done, you can navigate to the drive

cd /mnt/<your-name>
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thanks for getting so fast back. as I understood both drives are mounted:

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under mount control I can just unmount it?

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under mount control I can just unmount it?

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Same goes for the second SSD

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once mounted, leave drive manager and use cd command to move into the drive

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that’s the directory on your dive
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This is how you named it while mounting

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ahhh damn. thanks. im going to try it.

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creating the folders worked now!

But when trying in sabnzbd settings to change the folders to the new ones on the external I get following message

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I created all folders with root

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you need to change owner to sabnzbd user. Or even better to dietpi groupe to be able to exchange with other apps

chown dietpi:dietpi /mnt/<your-path-to-folder>
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do I need to do that for each folder? or is the mount drive enough and it parents its down to the subfolders?

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just for the folder you like to access by sabnzbd. If there are other subfolder, you could use -r option on cd command

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mhhh somehow I can’t get it to work.

i have created a incomplete, complete, watched, scripts folder

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then given
chown dietpi:dietpi /mnt/c5ef1ad4-f767-41c0-b301-5885583d5b25/sabnzbd/incomplete

but I still can’t save and getting error access in sabnzbd

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try

chown -r dietpi:dietpi /mnt/c5ef1ad4-f767-41c0-b301-5885583d5b25/sabnzbd

can you share following afterwards

ls -la /mnt/c5ef1ad4-f767-41c0-b301-5885583d5b25/sabnzbd
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ah sorry it’s uppercase -R :smiley:

chown -R dietpi:dietpi /mnt/c5ef1ad4-f767-41c0-b301-5885583d5b25/sabnzbd
chmod -R 775 /mnt/c5ef1ad4-f767-41c0-b301-5885583d5b25/sabnzbd
ls -la /mnt/c5ef1ad4-f767-41c0-b301-5885583d5b25/sabnzbd

BTW: there is no need to do screen prints. You should be able to copy everything from SSH terminal directly.

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root@DietPi:~# chown -R dietpi:dietpi /mnt/c5ef1ad4-f767-41c0-b301-5885583d5b25/sabnzbd
chmod -R 775 /mnt/c5ef1ad4-f767-41c0-b301-5885583d5b25/sabnzbd
ls -la /mnt/c5ef1ad4-f767-41c0-b301-5885583d5b25/sabnzbd
total 24
drwxrwxr-x 6 dietpi dietpi 4096 Dec 17 19:58 .
drwxr-xr-x 4 root   root   4096 Dec 17 19:56 ..
drwxrwxr-x 2 dietpi dietpi 4096 Dec 17 19:58 complete
drwxrwxr-x 2 dietpi dietpi 4096 Dec 17 19:58 incomplete
drwxrwxr-x 2 dietpi dietpi 4096 Dec 17 19:58 scripts
drwxrwxr-x 2 dietpi dietpi 4096 Dec 17 19:58 watched
root@DietPi:~#

fucking legend you are. it worked.

will I get into similar issues when configuring sonarr/radarr/prowlarr? do you have any clue (if not I will probably come back to you :smiley: )

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depends, if you will use different folder :wink:

Basically, solution will be same. Change user and group to dietpi + adjust folder permission to 775

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Roger that captain. will give my best