hi,
Could you point me in the right direction, please? I’m trying to use rule 81 to map secondary internal hdd to save frigate recordings. I can manually map the drive using “mount /dev/sda /mnt/data/supervisor/media/frigate” from terminal after reboot. Script is saved in the right folder for udev rules but upon reboot, nothing happens. I’ve change all the “STORAGE” entries to “frigate”. Should I unplug the flash drive at this point? Any way to figure out why it’s not mapping the drive?
Thank you for all your suggestions 
This procedure works for me on a x86 bare metal installation booting on internal SSD drive. I have used the original version of 80-mount-usb-to-media-by-label.rules Looks like the problem that is why it didn’t work the first time is the usb drive. There is a video further down that you need to try different usb drive if it doesn’t work for the CONFIG.
I just spent way too long trying to do exactly that so here’s what works:
Remove the system HDD from your HA computer and attach it to a different linux pc (or live disc)
create 2 temp folders wherever you want. sdb3 and sdb5
(I’m going to use /mnt as an example and assume your HassOS drive is sdb in the 2nd pc)
create 80-mount-sdb.rules and put this inside and then copy it to BOTH temp folders:
KERNEL!="sd[a-z][0-9]", GOTO="abort_rule"
ACTION=="add", RUN{program}+="/usr/bin/systemd-mount --no-block --automount=no --collect /dev/disk/by-uuid/<<YOUR PARTITION UUID>> /mnt/data/supervisor/media/frigate"
ACTION=="remove", RUN{program}+="/usr/bin/systemd-umount /mnt/data/supervisor/media/frigate"
LABEL="abort_rule"`
temp folder 1: (/mnt/sdb3)
sudo unsquashfs -i /dev/sdb3 #decompress the compressed filesystem
sudo cp 80-mount-sdb.rules squashfs-root/lib/udev/rules.d #copy your file to the correct folder
sudo mksquashfs squashfs-root/ squash.rootfs.1 #compress the filesystem
sudo dd if=./squash.rootfs.1 of=/dev/sdb3 #replace the old filesystem with the new one
temp folder 2 is the exact same commands but replace sdb3 with sdb5.
These instructions worked well for me but only after I used a different computer to format the external drives as ext4 volumes. HA OS unfortunately does not include CLI or UI tools to format USB disks with linux filesystems.
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Correction for #3: “Import from USB” has been removed from the UI ( I think since Version 2023). You will need to use the cli for it now. Plug in the USB “CONFIG” drive, open a ssh (or use “Terminal” in HA) and run the following command:
**ha os import** (without quotes).
Continue with #4.
I’m on 2023.8.2 and the option in the UI is still there
I’ve successfully made this work - but now I’m confused as to how I might allow various addons to have access. Calibre and qBittorrent are the first two I’ve tried but I don’t understand how the root file system relates to whats available in the docker containers.
Its under /media/{name of drive} for addons
New question - under my previous pi/ha core setup I edited my fstab file to ensure that the media drive was always see at sdb - does it make sense to do that while using udev
Hello,
Sorry but i’ve not skill
it’s possible do this procedure with formatted fat32 usbkey?
-I have labled Config the usbkey,
-i put inside a folder with a file named 80-mount-usb-to-media-by-label.rules
-In Ha i,ve import usb data
-unplug usb
-connect hdd usb in the same port and reboot.
It’s all correct?
In media I find nothing 
why don you use the “Samba NAS” AddOn https://github.com/dianlight/hassio-addons/tree/master/sambanas
it work great and simple to configure.
Just put the exact name like “data” or “Data” (case sensitive) of your HDD label, and it will be auto mount in /media/
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I just did this, however the mount seems to break if Frigate loads before Samba NAS, because Samba sees that the folder already exists and thus throws an error?
i have the same message because the folder already exist, but the mount work, its more a warning than an error for me.
i followed this tutorial/guide but can’t get it working. i have a EXT4 drive i want to connect. i am importing the udev rules file fine, i get the confirmation in logs. however in SSH i do not have a /etc/udev folder or file.
also, in my HAOS dedicated machine (not virtual!) i do not have anything in the /mnt folder. in the root of the system there is the empty /mnt folder, and also the media folder. I don’t know if this means anything. maybe no one here is running HAOS directly?
I do have the drive listed in hardware though…
EDIT: after quite some hours i got it working, turned out to be a spelling mistake in the tutorial i followed.
Thank you very much for the detailed help!
I tried following @promithius instructions, but I got stuck at the last step. I could load the configuration from the USB stick (confirmed in the log), I unplugged the USB stick and plugged in my NTFS formatted SSD. The problem is that I don’t see the SSD in the Media section. I tried rebooting both HA and the Raspberry, neither helped.
I noticed in the Supervisor log that it is somehow seeing the SSD:
But the media section stays as before:
Could anyone please help me figure this out?
I tried formatting the drive to EXT4, repeating all the steps and still no folder showing up in my “Media” section.
For me same thing, i tried to mount it via ssh just to test it. It always said Fileformat unkown on NTFS and EXFAT
Thanks for the tip. I labelled the drive as “data” and it shows up when I remote into the drive. However the recordings are still being stored in media/frigate. It does not get auto mounted into media. Do I have to do anything else?
Just use the Samba NAS Addon from this repository: GitHub - dianlight/hassio-addons: Hassio.io
Configure it with
- username
- password
- automount ON
- medialibrary enable: true
Format your USB drive EXT4 and name it frigate, plug it in and start the Samba addon.
For me it mounts the drive as /media/FRIGATE ( no clue why all capitals) but I fixed that with a /media/frigate symlink to /media/FRIGATE
Start frigate and it will fill the USB drive.
Also no problems when restarting.
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Thx!!!
Finally i got it working with you´re description! My flaw was that i didn`t had EXT4 and you´re solution is by far the simpelst way to get it done!
I have the same issue where it is creating the folder as media/FRIGATE. How do you go about creating a “symlink” ? so that it is lower case
Sorry noob here
Thanks
Use SSH to login HA cli (or use Terminal & SSH addon)
type:
ln -s /media/FRIGATE /media/frigate
to check type:
cd /media
and then
ls
you should see two folders now FRIGATE and frigate
The lowercase folder is just a symbolic or soft link to the uppercase
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