No Directories on USB drive

[danlahl]

Hi,

I have a RaspPi 2 and have a usb raid device connected (and have enabled Samba). The problem is I cannot see any directories on this RAID device through raspberry pi (using SSH and Putty). It is fine when I plug into a windows machine - all directories are there, but I cannot see the directories on this drive in Raspian using Putty.

Any thoughts on why RaspPi is not showing the directories on the USB RAID device (only showing 1 file at top level). Device is a Silverstone 2 drive enclosure wtih 2 TB on each drive.

thx for your help!

[drgeoff]

Is the USB device hardware RAID or software RAID?

[JimmyN]

Are you sure it's mounted? You may be looking at the empty mount directory.
What does this command show?

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mount

and this command

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blkid

[danlahl]

yes, drive is mounted and blockid shows this for the drive

/dev/mmcblk0p1: LABEL="RECOVERY" UUID="4CF5-4260" TYPE="vfat"
/dev/mmcblk0p3: LABEL="SETTINGS" UUID="ac47c4a2-32dd-4367-9953-43fe303a9827" TYPE="ext4"
/dev/mmcblk0p5: SEC_TYPE="msdos" LABEL="boot" UUID="1142-CFAF" TYPE="vfat"
/dev/mmcblk0p6: LABEL="root" UUID="75bdb46d-557f-47b9-a6a6-a551da6100f0" TYPE="ext4"
/dev/sda1: LABEL="USB Win7 Server" UUID="1CBCF948BCF91D48" TYPE="ntfs"
danlahl@raspberrypi /NAS_drives/silverstone2tb $ dir
weaved-nixinstaller_1.2.13.bin

You can see this drive (SDA1) is a type "ntfs" and I had named the drive "USB Win7 Server". But only 1 file shows up on the drive, even though the other folders are visible when I plug this into a windows machine. The usb Raid device is HW-based from Silverstone. A copy of a 2 TB drive for the 2nd drive in the silverstone box.

thx for your help!

[FM81]

What gives

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ls -ld /path/to/your/usb

? (Please replace '/path/to/your/usb' with the real path of your raspberry-mountpoint [which you didn't say to us].)

Greetings, FM_81

[danlahl]

ok, here is what comes back from ls -ld

danlahl@raspberrypi ~ $ ls -ld /NAS_drives/silverstone2tb
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Aug 13 10:10 /NAS_drives/silverstone2tb

>>>

So I just reran the mount command with the name of the drive:

sudo mount -t auto /dev/sdb1 /NAS_drives/silverstone2tb

And got it working. This is odd as I have setup the drive to automatically start ( via path) in /etc/samba/smb.conf. oh well, working now so no big deal.

thx for the help!