Auto-Mounting Problem after converting Exfat to NTFS

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Hi,

Long time I used 2 external HDDs with Exfat partitions on Vero4k.
After some exfat related problems I decided to change to Ntfs, but now the same Hdds don’t recognize in OSMC.

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Did you give them a label?
Upload logs so that we can help.
Also generally exfat support is better than ntfs support

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Same label and content as before in Exfat. “Videos“ and “Videos 2“.

Here my complete logs:

My Logs

So far I can see my HDD Media-Devices are dev/sda2 and dev/sdb1.

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If I understand correctly in the Logs, the HDDs are recognized, but not mounted?! But I’m no Kodi expert and not sure what to do to solute this problem.

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Looks to me like they are not labeled properly.

Dec 06 19:53:28 osmc udisks-glue[525]: blkid: /dev/sda2: PARTLABEL="Basic data partition" PARTUUID="f2412514-a065-4144-8202-0af361fedb31"

And there doesn’t seem to be a label at all on the other drive.

If they are connected to a 4K, and you don’t plan on connecting them to a windows system, you would be better off formatting them as EXT4 or BTRFS as they are native to linux.

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In Windows the Hdds are labeled, but that seems not to be the same/right label for OSMC. And I found actual no way for changing this special label in an easy way for my two gpt-formatted hdds, so I will give Ext4 a try. With Paragon ExtFS I also can use the Ext4 hdd in Windows normally. Disadvantage seems to be the lowered transferrate in Windows. 130-180 MB/s ntfs to ntfs. 30-40 MB/s ntfs to Ext4.

In 1.5 days the Data Transfer must be over and I will see if my Vero4k is satisfied again.

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I think the Windows GPT part has messed up the Partitions and Labels for OSMC. Surely if you can redo the disks I suggest to repation with GPT under OSMC and then reformat. Ideally using EXT4/BTRFS or you might give it a try with exfat again. But suggest always do the Partitioning and Formating on OSMC.

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This was my failure… inadvertently I used USB 2… instead USB 3 for one of my drives. The second one runs with the same speed (Max 180 MB/s) for ntfs>Ext4, as ntfs>ntfs. (when using USB3 for both drives)

And with Ext4 (and correctly labeled HDD), my Vero4k is very satisfied and works properly.

Thx for help and hints :slight_smile: