I have an SSD with two partitions. I can plug this into the USB 3.0 port on my Pi 4.5 (canakit) and the partitions show up in the VNC desktop as separate drives. I can read and write to them via the file manager. All good.
However, I want to mount these under mnt and I have yet to succeed. If I unmount them they disappear until I reboot the Pi. The mount commands all fail.
Here is the lstblk output.
NAME MAJ:MIN RM SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINTS
loop0 7:0 0 2G 0 loop
sda 8:0 0 465.8G 0 disk
├─sda1 8:1 0 270.3G 0 part /media/dan/usbssd
└─sda2 8:2 0 195.5G 0 part /media/dan/usbstg
mmcblk0 179:0 0 59.5G 0 disk
├─mmcblk0p1 179:1 0 512M 0 part /boot/firmware
└─mmcblk0p2 179:2 0 59G 0 part /
zram0 254:0 0 2G 0 disk [SWAP]
Here is the blkid output:
sudo blkid
/dev/mmcblk0p1: LABEL_FATBOOT="bootfs" LABEL="bootfs" UUID="F587-071F" BLOCK_SIZE="512" TYPE="vfat" PARTUUID="07af98a3-01"
/dev/mmcblk0p2: LABEL="rootfs" UUID="d6944274-f2f7-4644-96a4-213c3b367f5c" BLOCK_SIZE="4096" TYPE="ext4" PARTUUID="07af98a3-02"
/dev/loop0: TYPE="swap"
/dev/sda2: LABEL="usbstg" BLOCK_SIZE="512" UUID="00E8708EE87083A6" TYPE="ntfs" PARTUUID="a78a789b-02"
/dev/sda1: LABEL="usbssd" BLOCK_SIZE="512" UUID="12884E28884E0B25" TYPE="ntfs" PARTUUID="a78a789b-01"
/dev/zram0: LABEL="zram0" UUID="097c2c77-d2c9-44db-811d-443496f110d3" TYPE="swap"
Gparted says they are mounted under "media".
So how do I get this mounted under "mnt"? Nothing seems to work.
sudo mount /dev/sda1/ /mnt/usbcams/ btw it fails the same way if I use /sda/sda1/ as well.
mount: /mnt/usbcams: fsconfig() failed: /dv/sda1/: Can't lookup blockdev.
dmesg(1) may have more information after failed mount system call.
I want to authorize our cams to ftp to these but i am a bit leary of leaving them under media.
I have used sudo mkdir -p /mnt/usbcams and it completes. In fact it will complete twice in a row without complaining about a duplicate request.
However, I want to mount these under mnt and I have yet to succeed. If I unmount them they disappear until I reboot the Pi. The mount commands all fail.
Here is the lstblk output.
NAME MAJ:MIN RM SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINTS
loop0 7:0 0 2G 0 loop
sda 8:0 0 465.8G 0 disk
├─sda1 8:1 0 270.3G 0 part /media/dan/usbssd
└─sda2 8:2 0 195.5G 0 part /media/dan/usbstg
mmcblk0 179:0 0 59.5G 0 disk
├─mmcblk0p1 179:1 0 512M 0 part /boot/firmware
└─mmcblk0p2 179:2 0 59G 0 part /
zram0 254:0 0 2G 0 disk [SWAP]
Here is the blkid output:
sudo blkid
/dev/mmcblk0p1: LABEL_FATBOOT="bootfs" LABEL="bootfs" UUID="F587-071F" BLOCK_SIZE="512" TYPE="vfat" PARTUUID="07af98a3-01"
/dev/mmcblk0p2: LABEL="rootfs" UUID="d6944274-f2f7-4644-96a4-213c3b367f5c" BLOCK_SIZE="4096" TYPE="ext4" PARTUUID="07af98a3-02"
/dev/loop0: TYPE="swap"
/dev/sda2: LABEL="usbstg" BLOCK_SIZE="512" UUID="00E8708EE87083A6" TYPE="ntfs" PARTUUID="a78a789b-02"
/dev/sda1: LABEL="usbssd" BLOCK_SIZE="512" UUID="12884E28884E0B25" TYPE="ntfs" PARTUUID="a78a789b-01"
/dev/zram0: LABEL="zram0" UUID="097c2c77-d2c9-44db-811d-443496f110d3" TYPE="swap"
Gparted says they are mounted under "media".
So how do I get this mounted under "mnt"? Nothing seems to work.
sudo mount /dev/sda1/ /mnt/usbcams/ btw it fails the same way if I use /sda/sda1/ as well.
mount: /mnt/usbcams: fsconfig() failed: /dv/sda1/: Can't lookup blockdev.
dmesg(1) may have more information after failed mount system call.
I want to authorize our cams to ftp to these but i am a bit leary of leaving them under media.
I have used sudo mkdir -p /mnt/usbcams and it completes. In fact it will complete twice in a row without complaining about a duplicate request.
Statistics: Posted by Brodan — Tue Mar 03, 2026 11:02 pm — Replies 2 — Views 39