Issues with external drives

Hi, I have a Raspberry Pi 4 running DietPi v7.2.3 and I have an issue with my drives that seems not mounted in Drive Manager (and I cant mount it) but one of these is viewable from Samba( /mnt/DVR) .

As you can see here one drive is fully read/write accessible:

root@DietPi:~# ls /mnt/DATI1TB
root@DietPi:~# ls /mnt/DVR
motioneye
root@DietPi:~#

And here I can’t find any info about mountpoint:

root@DietPi:~# mount
/dev/mmcblk0p2 on / type ext4 (rw,noatime,lazytime)
devtmpfs on /dev type devtmpfs (rw,relatime,size=1899652k,nr_inodes=147011,mode=755)
sysfs on /sys type sysfs (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime)
proc on /proc type proc (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime)
securityfs on /sys/kernel/security type securityfs (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime)
tmpfs on /dev/shm type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,nodev)
devpts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,nosuid,noexec,relatime,gid=5,mode=620,ptmxmode=000)
tmpfs on /run type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,nodev,mode=755)
tmpfs on /run/lock type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,size=5120k)
tmpfs on /sys/fs/cgroup type tmpfs (ro,nosuid,nodev,noexec,mode=755)
cgroup2 on /sys/fs/cgroup/unified type cgroup2 (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,nsdelegate)
cgroup on /sys/fs/cgroup/systemd type cgroup (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,xattr,name=systemd)
none on /sys/fs/bpf type bpf (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,mode=700)
cgroup on /sys/fs/cgroup/net_cls,net_prio type cgroup (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,net_cls,net_prio)
cgroup on /sys/fs/cgroup/pids type cgroup (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,pids)
cgroup on /sys/fs/cgroup/cpu,cpuacct type cgroup (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,cpu,cpuacct)
cgroup on /sys/fs/cgroup/perf_event type cgroup (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,perf_event)
cgroup on /sys/fs/cgroup/cpuset type cgroup (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,cpuset)
cgroup on /sys/fs/cgroup/freezer type cgroup (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,freezer)
cgroup on /sys/fs/cgroup/blkio type cgroup (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,blkio)
cgroup on /sys/fs/cgroup/devices type cgroup (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,devices)
systemd-1 on /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc type autofs (rw,relatime,fd=33,pgrp=1,timeout=0,minproto=5,maxproto=5,direct)
debugfs on /sys/kernel/debug type debugfs (rw,relatime)
mqueue on /dev/mqueue type mqueue (rw,relatime)
configfs on /sys/kernel/config type configfs (rw,relatime)
tmpfs on /var/log type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,nodev,noatime,lazytime,size=51200k)
tmpfs on /tmp type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,nodev,noatime,lazytime,size=1984512k)
/dev/mmcblk0p1 on /boot type vfat (rw,noatime,lazytime,fmask=0022,dmask=0022,codepage=437,iocharset=ascii,shortname=mixed,errors=remount-ro)
binfmt_misc on /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc type binfmt_misc (rw,relatime)



root@DietPi:~# df -hT
Filesystem     Type      Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/root      ext4       59G  5.1G   51G  10% /
devtmpfs       devtmpfs  1.9G     0  1.9G   0% /dev
tmpfs          tmpfs     1.9G   20K  1.9G   1% /dev/shm
tmpfs          tmpfs     1.9G   11M  1.9G   1% /run
tmpfs          tmpfs     5.0M     0  5.0M   0% /run/lock
tmpfs          tmpfs     1.9G     0  1.9G   0% /sys/fs/cgroup
tmpfs          tmpfs      50M  8.0K   50M   1% /var/log
tmpfs          tmpfs     1.9G  8.0K  1.9G   1% /tmp
/dev/mmcblk0p1 vfat      253M   51M  202M  20% /boot



root@DietPi:~# lsblk
NAME        MAJ:MIN RM   SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINT
sda           8:0    0 931.5G  0 disk 
sdb           8:16   0   1.8T  0 disk 
└─sdb1        8:17   0   1.8T  0 part 
mmcblk0     179:0    0  59.6G  0 disk 
├─mmcblk0p1 179:1    0   256M  0 part /boot
└─mmcblk0p2 179:2    0  59.4G  0 part /

I don’t know what happen and what I can do to solve…
I will appreciate any help.

Thanks

Hi,

I guess /mnt/DVR is located on your SD card and not on an external drive.

Can you check

df -h /mnt/DVR

what is the error message using drive manager?

root@DietPi:~# df -h /mnt/DVR
Filesystem      Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/root        59G  5.2G   51G  10% /

Now I can mount external drives, /mnt/DVR was /dev/sdb1 and I don’t what happened… :cry:

according your information /mnt/DVR is/was located on /dev/root. While /dev/root is located on your SD card.

But I understood you are able to mount your external disk again now, correct?