USB drive not mounted where I need it!

[gilhuguley]

I've learned a lot, but still a newbie. I am trying to make my Pi 4 a NAS and am almost there, but I need some help.

When I start Raspbian Buster on my Pi4, my USB drive shows up on the desktop. According to file manager, this USB drive is mounted at /media/pi/NAS2. Samba is running, but Win10 cannot find the drive there. Windows CAN connect to my Samba share under /home/pi/shared. How can I get the USB drive to /home/pi/shared?

Thanks.

[FTrevorGowen]

I've learned a lot, but still a newbie. I am trying to make my Pi 4 a NAS and am almost there, but I need some help.

When I start Raspbian Buster on my Pi4, my USB drive shows up on the desktop. According to file manager, this USB drive is mounted at /media/pi/NAS2. Samba is running, but Win10 cannot find the drive there. Windows CAN connect to my Samba share under /home/pi/shared. How can I get the USB drive to /home/pi/shared?

Thanks.

As I don't use samba to transfer files between different computer types (prefer SFTP methods and tools) I can't confirm whether this will/can work but you could try creating a symbolic link between /home/pi/shared and /media/pi/NAS2. Possibly better may be not to automount the USB drive (especially if it's always plugged in before booting up) but to mount it directly via an fstab entry - something like what I did in thes old notes here: https://www.cpmspectrepi.uk/raspberry_p ... 29_Methods
Trev.

[Botspot]

How can I get the USB drive to /home/pi/shared?

Easy. File manager (pcmanfm) auto-mounts usb drives to /media/pi.
You can easily manually mount a drive anywhere in your filesystem using the terminal:
To mount a drive, run a command like this:

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sudo mount /dev/sda1 /home/pi/shared/mounted_disk

What is /dev/sda? It's the path to the usb device. Yours may be different, so to see all available usb drives, run this command:
lsblk -o path,mountpoint,size
What is the 1 in /dev/sda1? That's the partition number.
A normal USB drive will only have one partition (fraction of the disk space to store files), but a Raspbian SD card will have 2 partitions. Partition 1 is /boot, and partition 2 is root (/).

[LTolledo]

you might try editing your smb.conf file to reflect the correct path to the USB drive you installed

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[My HDD share]
   comment = my share (not yours, get your own!)
   path = /home/pi/NAS2
   browseable = yes
   read only = no
   create mask = 0775
   directory mask = 0775