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exFAT and mounting SSD method
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I have installed Snakeoil 1.18 OS on a small SATA SSD and copied one song to the created Music folder that sits on that SSD as a test. Now I'm trying to add a second (larger) SSD for my music library (Ideally exFAT). 

Initially, I formatted the SSD to exFAT on my Mac, loaded music and then plugged it into my Snakeoil server. From Terminal I can see the SSD is recognised by Linux to some extent but from the Library tab I am unable to mount it.

I read on another thread about the Mac/Windows/Linux incompatibility of exFAT and tried fsck.exfat /dev/sdb1 but that was unsuccessful.  I then googled various linux commands and believe I reformatted the SSD from within Snakeoil via Terminal and even then mounted it (also via Terminal). It then appeared as a mount point in the Library tab but I couldn't work out how to copy music to it. From my Mac, I still only saw the music folder named "Music" that sits on the small SSD. Looks like I also failed some command to make sure the new mount point comes up at reboot since it disappeared.

Any help appreciated and please include the basics of mounting any drive to a location that I can find on the network from my Mac (Samba?). Apart from exFAT issue, I think I'm lacking knowledge in this area. I have never tried to use 2 SSDs before. Not even sure what to name and where to put the 2nd mount point or whether I can delete the 1st.

Cheers,
JD
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exFAT and mounting SSD method - by JD1 - 05-Jan-2020, 10:30 AM
RE: exFAT and mounting SSD method - by JD1 - 05-Jan-2020, 02:27 PM
RE: exFAT and mounting SSD method - by JD1 - 05-Jan-2020, 08:17 PM
RE: exFAT and mounting SSD method - by JD1 - 11-Jan-2020, 01:10 PM
RE: exFAT and mounting SSD method - by agent_kith - 11-Jan-2020, 02:49 PM
RE: exFAT and mounting SSD method - by JD1 - 12-Jan-2020, 10:20 AM
RE: exFAT and mounting SSD method - by JD1 - 09-Dec-2020, 03:42 PM
RE: exFAT and mounting SSD method - by agent_kith - 10-Dec-2020, 09:53 AM
RE: exFAT and mounting SSD method - by agent_kith - 10-Dec-2020, 05:53 PM

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