Boot NVME drive not accesible in recent releases

[cofot28]

Hello! 

I come back to the question of maintaining both moode os and music files within the same NVME drive. I noted your arguments for keeping apart system from music files, Nevertheless, I still find it a real pity to leave my 2tb nvme drive just carrying only the system files or alternatevely, relying on a micro sd for my os while having a fast and reliable bootable NVME drive. 
Until release 9.3.2, I had no problem with my configuration. I could still easily access my Pi5 in the network from windows, enter my login/pass and manage my music files in my nvme drive. Unfortunately, in newer releases this is not possible any more. The nvme drive disappeared from my Pi5 network files ! As my command line and networking skills are almost zero, could you do something so that people like me could easily (as before) get access to  music files in the nvme drive?

I take this opportunity to thank you for your continuous efforts to improve moode.

[Phil323UK]

Hi,

Moode 9.3.3 came with the following change.

“Remove NVMe and SATA root shares (replaced by actual shared directories)”

I think it’s this that is tripping you up, it did for me.
In Moode your NVMe drive is probably still showing a green tick next to it.
I had to remove the drive and then create it again to fix this issue.
And you will have to recreate the shares on your Windows machine.

Phil.

[Tim Curtis]

@cofot28,
Menu > Configure > Library
MOUNT Local NVMe drive
The Name you assign to it will be the name you see in Windows network neighborhood (or whatever its called these days)

Root shares were removed because they don't reflect the actual size of the underlying disk.

If you already mounted the NVMe drive then as @Phil323UK mentioned, remove and mount afresh and you should be all set.

[cofot28]

Hello again!

Thank you for your willingness to help, however when I go to nvme drives to mount my nvme drive I get:

/dev/nvme0n1 (not ext4)
/dev/nvme0n1p1 (not ext4)
/den/nvme0n1p2 (roofs)

Guessing that the 3rd partition includes my os file, I tried to mount the 2nd one. Then I was requested to “unmount before” but there is just a Mount button, no Unmount bottom. And even if I would manage somehow to unmount this partition, this would imply starting from scratch with my 3000 album db
As,unprescise counting of the drive size counts less for me, I come to the conclusion that I better stay with my current  9.3.6 update and then, when I will need to update my music DB, I keep preciously a copy of release 9.3.2 where I know what to do. 
Given my skills and needs this appears to be the most effective option at this moment.

[Tim Curtis]

Actually the boot drive always contains 2 partitions: The first is a small 256MB partition named "bootfs". It's Fat32 format and contains the kernel, boot loader and other startup files. The second partition is the remaining size of the boot drive and is named "rootfs. Its ext4 format and contains user programs, files and configs for example all the moOde application files are on this partition.

It contains directories like below
/home
/mnt/SDCARD
/mnt/OSDISK
/mnt/NVME
/mnt/NAS

Just mount /dev/nvme0n1p2 (roofs) and you should be all set.

[cofot28]

THANK YOU TIM!

Your explanation was clear and revealing to me. Given its importance, I think, it merits to be mentioned somewhere, perhaps in the info bullet beside "Drives".

[Tim Curtis]

THANK YOU TIM!

Your explanation was clear and revealing to me. Given its importance, I think, it merits to be mentioned somewhere, perhaps in the info bullet beside "Drives".

Good idea. I'll improve the help for the "Drives" dropdown. Look for it in upcoming 9.3.7 :-)