How do you check if USB stick is seen as a Storage Device in Hass.io?

Hi there!

Is there a way to know that the USB stick is seen in Hass.io on a Raspberry Pi 4?
I mean I plugged it, but I don’t know how to check if it is seen as a storage device

From what I understood, I should go to Hass.io -> System and press HARDWARE. And it should be seen in the disk: list. If this is how one should do it, I don’t know which one is the USB stick. This is what I get with the USB stick plugged in.

disk:

  • /dev/mmcblk0
  • /dev/mmcblk0p2
  • /dev/mmcblk0p6
  • /dev/mmcblk0p3
  • /dev/mmcblk0p1
  • /dev/mmcblk0p7
  • /dev/mmcblk0p4
  • /dev/mmcblk0p8
  • /dev/mmcblk0p5

Nothing disappears if I take the USB stick out. So if this is the method, what should I see extra, and what should I do so that Hass.io sees the USB stick?

Any help is truly appreciated!
ygreq

PS: In case you are wondering, I need to check this in order to know that the CONFIG USB stick is seen by the system or not.

Not a hass.io user myself, but I’ll help where I can. MMC is the memory card, so it doesn’t appear to be showing up. If you can get to the terminal and type
df -h
This will show you a list of disks and the free space, mount points and a few other things.
If the USB stick is not shown there then it could be quite a few other things (I can’t remember if Hass.io is the docker image that runs on a machine ? If it is then I’m sure you’ll need to somehow allow the docker image access to that drive)

Hi there, James! Thank you for looking into.

Unfortunately I don’t think you can get into the terminal because hass.io is in a docker. Maybe try to get in before it loads? But still I am interested to see it in hass.io. Hm hmm…

I uploaded 2 printscreens to have an idea what I do in Hass.io


hardware

So as it run in a docker image (like a virtual machine) I suspect you would need to set access to the usb stick up from the host. Over wise the docker image could do what it wanted.

I had a quick Google and can’t see anything easy, I think someone with more experience might have to weigh in…