exFAT and mounting SSD method

[agent_kith]

An update to my woes:
Both OS disk SSD and music SSD formatted with Ext4. Somehow I managed to get the OS disk as sda1 and the music disk as sdb1. Still there was a problem when I tried to copy music files via Samba. My Mac saw the 2TB music SSD as being only 50GB (size of OS disk). I got around that my plugging the music SSD directly into my Mac and copying files into it that way.

With Samba it's always going to be a problem. It's seeing the size of the parent, not the disk itself. Hence if your parent (OS) is 2MB, but your disk is 2TB. Samba will always use the parent size 2 MB. And copying files < 2MB will fail.

To overcome this, leave the "mount path" empty, as such, your disk will be mounted straight, and that should give it the correct size of 2TB (as an example).

Alternatively, you can use the WebApp to copy files instead. This should have no size limitations.

Now, one problem remains:
When I start up my Snakeoil server, it most often does not recognise both disks...but sometimes it does. It might recognise only OS disk or only Music disk
in BIOS it will typically not show either disk as a boot option and may or may not show one or the other disk as an attached SATA drive. However, if I press F12 during start up, it will typically show both disks as options for booting from...and I can start it that way.

Are these USB sticks, or mounted as SATA?

So BIOS sees the disks in some respects but not in others and is not sure where to boot from. This is despite setting OS disk as Boot Option 1 and having no USB drives connected. The next time I boot into BIOS, the Boot Option menu is likely not even accessible as that part of BIOS does not see any drives at all.

Any suggetions?

I suspect somehow your system don't work with device lables (/dev/sda, or /dev/sdb). This somehow means your computer will detect your disks in a different order. To fix this requires you to use blkid (block ids). But not entirely sure why you can't use device labels.

Might be a good idea for me to TeamViewer in to change your system to block id in the OS, and bypass the "library" tab in the WebApp altogether. That way it'll always work.