Hi, I’m running Home Assistant OS on a Raspberry 5 and I’m trying to connect an external USB HDD with it’s own power source. The HDD is detected as sda when I go in Material in HA and the partition is in ext4. However, I cannot get it to mount the drive so I can use it with Frigate or other integration.
I tryed Samba NAS and search the whole community but cannot seems to find a solution to such a simple problem.
I’m not a programmer but I can get around in the system but I need help.
Anybody knows how to add an external USB HDD connected to a raspberry Pi in HA ?
It’s such a simple task on regular computer but I’ve been turning around in circle for months with this problem.
That causes problems because it becomes part of the filesystem in the user zone and then automatically becomes part of the backup. The backup is built and stored in the maid drive, so it has to be big enough to hold all the data.
If you search you can find a way to do it. I do it. However I have crashed everything more than once with this by just clicking start full backup. Therefore I don’t give people that link. It is there, however.
It is simple. Example: your Pi drive is 128 Gb and 40 Gb used. Your external frigate USB HDD is 1 Tb and 400 Gb used. If you now create a backup, HA will try to put your external 400 Gb in a tar on your 128 Gb Pi drive, can’t do it and HA will crash.
But could I just not backup what is on the external drive ? Like my media ?
My main goal is to minimise the strain on my SD card.
Otherwise, would transferring the data disk to the external HDD be the only solution ?