2023-07-25
My Retropi external drive is on 1tb-eacs-00zjb0 .
It stopped working and I tossed old encloser in trash. I thought disk was dead. disk would not spin up and it spun up fine in a different enclosure.
In new enclousre disk would not mount. Fixed from here
Basically I had to fsck and resize2fs after switch to new enclosure to get mount to work. Files still seem to be OK now.
Well sometimes it when raspberry PI wants to shut down it hangs and I can tell disk is not responding.
Time to move to a newer larger disk. This 1tb can be an external pi backup.
Linux - Added Disk Commands etc. here.
Refresher Summary
Followed steps here https://retropie.org.uk/docs/Running-ROMs-from-a-USB-drive/ (Disabled USB Rom Service because that is just weird, see manual mount below)
Move all files from home/pi/RetroPie to external mount.
sudo mv -v /home/pi/RetroPie/* /media/usb0/
Used fstab to mount by disk label so we can use different external drives.
The fstab entry here shows mount point.
LABEL="usbdisk1" /home/pi/RetroPie ext4 nofail,defaults 0 0
What's in
/home/pi/RetroPie
configs are NOT on the external disk.
configs are stored in opt/retropie/configs.
So this means when we sync configs to pi we are syncing to sd card NOT external USB disc.
Wonder if it's possible to get configs moved to external? At least these are smaller.
Maybe configs aren't considered portable between 3b+ and 4b, etc.
Next step create new disk using usbdisk1 label.
Copy all files to it after mounting.
mounting should be by label.
Confirm we can boot off multiple drives.