Volumio HDD Install and Store Music on Second HDD

How to install a Second HDD in Volumio and Point that to the music directory
sda - Second HDD (3TB) Look for the correct drive (mine is SDA, yours may be different)
Label - TESTHDD ( give your fav name as per your convinence)

volumio@volumiotest:~$ sudo fdisk -l

list all the disk drives in your volumio either it is formatted or non allocated (not formatted)

volumio@volumiotest:~$ lsblk
NAME MAJ:MIN RM SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINT
sda 8:0 0 2.7T 0 disk
sdb 8:16 0 59.6G 0 disk
|-sdb1 8:17 0 487M 0 part /boot
|-sdb2 8:18 0 2.8G 0 part /imgpart
`-sdb3 8:19 0 56.4G 0 part
loop0 7:0 0 586.8M 0 loop /static

1st Step

Format the partition with ext3

volumio@volumiotest:~$ mkfs.ext3 -L TESTHDD /dev/sda

2nd Step

List the partitions with the detailed label, file system type and mount point

volumio@volumiotest:~$ sudo lsblk -o NAME,FSTYPE,LABEL,UUID,MOUNTPOINT
NAME FSTYPE LABEL UUID MOUNTPOINT

sda ext3 TESTHDD
sdb
|-sdb1 vfat volumioboot /boot
|-sdb2 ext4 volumioimg /imgpart
`-sdb3 ext4 volumio_data
loop0 squashfs /static

3rd Step

Making a Mount point 1

volumio@volumiotest:~$ sudo mkdir -p /mnt/TESTHDD

4th Step

Making a mount point 2

volumio@volumiotest:~$ sudo mount -o defaults /dev/sda /mnt/TESTHDD

5th Step

Changing Read / Write Permission

volumio@volumiotest:~$ Sudo chmod 777 /mnt/TESTHDD

6th Step

Permanent Mounting drives even after reboot

volumio@volumiotest:~$ sudo nano /etc/fstab

Add the line at the end

LABEL=datapartition /mnt/data ext4 defaults 0 2

Save and close the file when you are finished.

7th Step

We can check if the the disk is available in the output from the df command:

volumio@volumiotest:~$ df -h -x tmpfs -x devtmpfs

volumio@volumiotest:~$ df -h -x tmpfs -x devtmpfs
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
overlay 55G 202M 52G 1% /
/dev/sdb2 2.7G 1.3G 1.4G 49% /imgpart
/dev/loop0 587M 587M 0 100% /static
/dev/sdb1 487M 32M 455M 7% /boot
/dev/sda 2.7T 222G 2.4T 9% /mnt/TESTHDD

  • Important: you should see your HDD mounted like this
    ****** /dev/sda 2.7T 222G 2.4T 9% /mnt/TESTHDD ******

8th Step

volumio@volumiotest:~$ sudo nano/etc/samba/smb.conf

[global]
netbios name = Volumio
server string = Volumio Audiophile Music Player
workgroup = WORKGROUP
security = user
map to guest = Bad User
encrypt passwords = yes
wins support = yes
local master = no
preferred master = no
os level = 30

[Internal Storage]
comment = Volumio Internal Music Folder
path = /data/INTERNAL
read only = no
guest ok = yes

[Internal Storage2]
comment = Volumio Internal Music Folder
path = /mnt/TESTHDD
read only = no
guest ok = yes

[USB]
comment = Volumio Internal Music Folder
path = /mnt/USB
read only = no
guest ok = yes

[NAS]
comment = Volumio Internal Music Folder
path = /mnt/NAS
read only = no
guest ok = yes

Save and close the file when you are finished.

Also if you

\192.168.1.2 in your windows pc on your file explorer you can see the folder listing in the Volumio machine

your HDD will be in the Internal Storage 2

You can copy all your digital music files from PC to Volumio music server 2nd HDD

\192.168.1.2 ( Eg: Static IP for Volumio Machine) the below will be folder listing for your 2nd HDD

\192.168.1.2\Internal Storage2\

9th Step

volumio@volumiotest:~$ ls -l /mnt/TESTHDD
total 48
drwxr-xr-x 2 nobody nogroup 4096 Sep 2 01:05 folder 1
drwxr-xr-x 50 nobody nogroup 12288 Sep 2 01:37 folder 2
drwxr-xr-x 4 nobody nogroup 4096 Sep 2 01:04 folder 3
drwxr-xr-x 2 nobody nogroup 4096 Sep 2 01:47 folder 4
drwxr-xr-x 5 nobody nogroup 4096 Sep 2 02:00 folder 5
drwxr-xr-x 3 nobody nogroup 4096 Sep 22 01:47 folder 6
drwx------ 2 root root 16384 Sep 22 00:35 lost+found

folder 1, folder 2, folder 3, folder 4, folder 5, folder 6, lost+found are the folder that you created in your TESTHDD

10th Step

create symbolic link

volumio@volumiotest:~$ sudo ln -s /mnt/Audiophile /var/lib/mpd/music/TESTHDD

volumio@volumiotest:~$ mpc update
Updating DB (#3) ā€¦
volume: n/a repeat: off random: off single: off consume: off

volumio@volumiotest:~$

Thatā€™s it now you can see your TESTHDD ( give your fav name as per your convinence) in your MEDIA LIBRARY

Enjoy

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Hi! I have a problem with /etc/fstab after reboot not mount the disk. /etc/fstab not apply the changes.
System Volumio 2.837 (x86). Thank You for help!

Hi Vlad, welcome to Volumio.

Please, you need to give as many details as possible ā€¦"/etc/fstab after reboot not mount the disk" tells us nothing. As a starter, you might like to show your fstab, and state what kind of disk is not being mounted.

If I add to fstab line at the end: LABEL=datapartition /mnt/data ext4 defaults 0 2
this line save and i see this, but after reboot this line go missing. I am trying to edit /etc/fstab on my volumio installation, to mount a new partition.It works fine ; however when I reboot /etc/fstab is overwritten.

I found the same problem with overwriting /etc/fstab, but this in raspberry pi system. editing etc/fstab raspberry pi

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ā€˜fstabā€™ is indeed overwritten on reboot by design. If you want to make permanent changes then you can add an additional file fstab.tmpl containing changes that you want adding to fstab.

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Thank You Ian for help! I try this and will say solved or not.

Thank You Ian for help! Itā€™s work!!! Solved.

Thanks so much for the explanation. a question.
where it says LABEL = datapartition / mnt / data ext4 by default 0 2.
datapartition is dev / sdaX or you put the line as you wrote it.Thank you

Could you explain how you did to solve it? Thanks.

10th Step, create symbolic link

sudo ln -s /mnt/Audiophile /var/lib/mpd/music/TESTHDD

why not sudo ln -s /mnt/TESTHDD /varlib/mpd/music/TESTHDD ?

where does Ɓudiophile come from?