The reason is that you still use the NTFS file system on that drive. We suggest to use EXT4 since NTFS creates a lot of overhead which means you’re limited in performance.
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if you still want to use NTFS, you’ve to install another package:
sudo apt install ntfs-3g
otherwise go to step 2. -
if you want to use EXT4 file system, the disk does not contain any data and can be purged:
- locate the device name using the
dfcommand, let’s assume in this example it was/dev/sda1 - unmount the drive:
sudo umount /dev/sda1 - kill the drive contents by overwriting the first 64 MB:
sudo dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda1 bs=1M count=64 - create a new partition:
sudo fdisk /dev/sda(leave out the last digit of the device name found withdf) - within
fdiskdelete all partitions of the hdd with command (d), create a new one (n) and accept all default values and write the info down to disk (w) - create the new file system:
mkfs.ext4 /dev/sda1 -T largefile -m 1 -L MyDISK
(-T largefilemeans the disk only contains large files and by that don’t need a huge amount of inodes,-m 1only reserves 1% of the disk space for maintenance/recovery purpose,-L MyDISKassignes the volume label/namemyDISKto the hdd) - let OSMC scan for new partitions:
sudo partprobe(ignore any errors) or simplysudo reboot - that’s it, your new formatted hdd should be found somewhere at
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