USB HDD mounted to a folder in the home drive is not shown as available space on Windows using SMB
I have a 2TB drive on my machine mounted as /home/Louis/Downloads and that works fine:
NAME MAJ:MIN RM SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINT
sda 8:0 0 1,8T 0 disk
└─sda1 8:1 0 1,8T 0 part /home/Louis/Downloads
mmcblk0 179:0 0 100G 0 disk
├─mmcblk0p1 179:1 0 100M 0 part /boot
└─mmcblk0p2 179:2 0 100G 0 part /
I have a SMB config sharing /home/Louis/ over the network and I can access it from Windows just fine, the problem is that the reported size in Windows is just 100GB (The size of my /home partition) and not 2,1 TB of the whole /home folder.
Here's the smb.conf:
[Home]
comment = Home Folder
read only = no
locking = no
path = "/home/Louis"
guest ok = no
browsable = yes
valid users = pine
create mode = 0644
directory mode = 0755
create mask = 0644
force create mask = 0644
directory mask = 0755
force group = pine
force user = pine
public = no
writeable = yes
If I directly mount /home/Louis/Downloads in Windows, I get access to the whole 2TB, but I can't get to the rest of my /home/Louis stuff without using 2 letters in Windows, and I'd like to use just 1.
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I have a 2TB drive on my machine mounted as /home/Louis/Downloads and that works fine:
NAME MAJ:MIN RM SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINT
sda 8:0 0 1,8T 0 disk
└─sda1 8:1 0 1,8T 0 part /home/Louis/Downloads
mmcblk0 179:0 0 100G 0 disk
├─mmcblk0p1 179:1 0 100M 0 part /boot
└─mmcblk0p2 179:2 0 100G 0 part /
I have a SMB config sharing /home/Louis/ over the network and I can access it from Windows just fine, the problem is that the reported size in Windows is just 100GB (The size of my /home partition) and not 2,1 TB of the whole /home folder.
Here's the smb.conf:
[Home]
comment = Home Folder
read only = no
locking = no
path = "/home/Louis"
guest ok = no
browsable = yes
valid users = pine
create mode = 0644
directory mode = 0755
create mask = 0644
force create mask = 0644
directory mask = 0755
force group = pine
force user = pine
public = no
writeable = yes
If I directly mount /home/Louis/Downloads in Windows, I get access to the whole 2TB, but I can't get to the rest of my /home/Louis stuff without using 2 letters in Windows, and I'd like to use just 1.
mount samba
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I don't know the easiest way to say it, but that is not how a Samba mount works. Just linking or mounting a drive within the folder does not automatically make more size available to the drive. If that were the case then your 100GB / mount would then be 1.9T in size. Windows following through is going to see the exact same thing. Are you having a problem accessing the/home/Louis/Downloadsfolder from the first drive mount?
– Terrance
1 hour ago
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I have a 2TB drive on my machine mounted as /home/Louis/Downloads and that works fine:
NAME MAJ:MIN RM SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINT
sda 8:0 0 1,8T 0 disk
└─sda1 8:1 0 1,8T 0 part /home/Louis/Downloads
mmcblk0 179:0 0 100G 0 disk
├─mmcblk0p1 179:1 0 100M 0 part /boot
└─mmcblk0p2 179:2 0 100G 0 part /
I have a SMB config sharing /home/Louis/ over the network and I can access it from Windows just fine, the problem is that the reported size in Windows is just 100GB (The size of my /home partition) and not 2,1 TB of the whole /home folder.
Here's the smb.conf:
[Home]
comment = Home Folder
read only = no
locking = no
path = "/home/Louis"
guest ok = no
browsable = yes
valid users = pine
create mode = 0644
directory mode = 0755
create mask = 0644
force create mask = 0644
directory mask = 0755
force group = pine
force user = pine
public = no
writeable = yes
If I directly mount /home/Louis/Downloads in Windows, I get access to the whole 2TB, but I can't get to the rest of my /home/Louis stuff without using 2 letters in Windows, and I'd like to use just 1.
mount samba
asked 2 hours ago
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I have a 2TB drive on my machine mounted as /home/Louis/Downloads and that works fine:
NAME MAJ:MIN RM SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINT
sda 8:0 0 1,8T 0 disk
└─sda1 8:1 0 1,8T 0 part /home/Louis/Downloads
mmcblk0 179:0 0 100G 0 disk
├─mmcblk0p1 179:1 0 100M 0 part /boot
└─mmcblk0p2 179:2 0 100G 0 part /
I have a SMB config sharing /home/Louis/ over the network and I can access it from Windows just fine, the problem is that the reported size in Windows is just 100GB (The size of my /home partition) and not 2,1 TB of the whole /home folder.
Here's the smb.conf:
[Home]
comment = Home Folder
read only = no
locking = no
path = "/home/Louis"
guest ok = no
browsable = yes
valid users = pine
create mode = 0644
directory mode = 0755
create mask = 0644
force create mask = 0644
directory mask = 0755
force group = pine
force user = pine
public = no
writeable = yes
If I directly mount /home/Louis/Downloads in Windows, I get access to the whole 2TB, but I can't get to the rest of my /home/Louis stuff without using 2 letters in Windows, and I'd like to use just 1.
mount samba
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I don't know the easiest way to say it, but that is not how a Samba mount works. Just linking or mounting a drive within the folder does not automatically make more size available to the drive. If that were the case then your 100GB / mount would then be 1.9T in size. Windows following through is going to see the exact same thing. Are you having a problem accessing the/home/Louis/Downloadsfolder from the first drive mount?
– Terrance
1 hour ago
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I don't know the easiest way to say it, but that is not how a Samba mount works. Just linking or mounting a drive within the folder does not automatically make more size available to the drive. If that were the case then your 100GB / mount would then be 1.9T in size. Windows following through is going to see the exact same thing. Are you having a problem accessing the/home/Louis/Downloadsfolder from the first drive mount?
– Terrance
1 hour ago
I don't know the easiest way to say it, but that is not how a Samba mount works. Just linking or mounting a drive within the folder does not automatically make more size available to the drive. If that were the case then your 100GB / mount would then be 1.9T in size. Windows following through is going to see the exact same thing. Are you having a problem accessing the
/home/Louis/Downloads folder from the first drive mount?– Terrance
1 hour ago
I don't know the easiest way to say it, but that is not how a Samba mount works. Just linking or mounting a drive within the folder does not automatically make more size available to the drive. If that were the case then your 100GB / mount would then be 1.9T in size. Windows following through is going to see the exact same thing. Are you having a problem accessing the
/home/Louis/Downloads folder from the first drive mount?– Terrance
1 hour ago
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I don't know the easiest way to say it, but that is not how a Samba mount works. Just linking or mounting a drive within the folder does not automatically make more size available to the drive. If that were the case then your 100GB / mount would then be 1.9T in size. Windows following through is going to see the exact same thing. Are you having a problem accessing the
/home/Louis/Downloadsfolder from the first drive mount?– Terrance
1 hour ago