Hi everyone,
I’m trying to add an external 4TB SSD drive to my Home Assistant setup. I’ve heard that it should be straightforward, but I’m running into some issues. Let me walk through what I’ve done so far and see if anyone can help me figure this out.
First, I plugged in the SSD drive, which uses an exFAT file system. From what I understand, exFAT is supported, but I’m not entirely sure. When I check the file system on my Raspberry Pi 4, I don’t see the drive listed in the folders. I tried creating a mount point manually using mkdir /mnt/ssd and then mounting it with mount -t exfat /dev/sda1 /mnt/ssd, but I keep getting a permission denied error. I even tried using sudo, but it didn’t help.
I’m a bit confused about why this isn’t working. Maybe the file system isn’t supported, or perhaps I’m using the wrong device name. I’ve checked with lsblk and fdisk -l, and it seems like the drive is recognized, but I’m not sure if I’m targeting the correct partition.
Has anyone else had success mounting an external SSD to Home Assistant? Any tips or tricks would be greatly appreciated! I’m really looking forward to expanding my storage capabilities with this drive.
Thanks in advance for your help!
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