I assume I am, that is where the Crucial X9 drive appears.I have not mounted the drive, perhaps I should. My Pi 4B 'sees' the USB 3.0 port that it is plugged into so I have not mounted it. All that shows up with "mount" is the micro ssd on my pi.I use LibreOffice all the time on Pi400s and Pi5 and even occasionally on Pi3.
It works fine on all of them.
I agree with Thagrol. Let's try to address the actual problem with accessing your data, rather than abandoning a tried and trusted office suite.
Can you mount the drive at all?
does it show up if you type "mount"
Then let's try a simple "ls -l" of the files on that drive...Can you actually see them?
Are you booting into the desktop?
Are you familiar with how the Linux filesystem works and how drives appear?
Unlike with a certain other graphical OS (and its text only predessor) new drives are not given an identifying letter, they are instead mounted on to a directory in the root filesystem.
On RPiOS booting to the desktop and with no customisation any drives not already mounted when the desktop starts or that are hotplugged after desktop login will have their partitions automatically mounted to a directory below /media/<username> with a name derived from the meta data of the partition.
For example, a USB drive containging a single partition with a LABEL of foo that is hotplugged when logged in as the user pi will be mounted at /media/pi/foo. To access its contents navigate to that directory in the dialogue box, filemanager, etc.
If the mount is not happenning, you need to find out why and/or mount it manually.
If you are booting to the command line and not running the desktop you have no choice but to mount manually.
It does show up when I type 'mount' as /dev/sda2 on /media/brad/Crucial X9 type exfat (rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime,uid=1000,gid=1000,fmask=0022,dmask=0022,iocharset=utf8,errors=remount-ro,uhelper=udisks2)
I did not 'name' the drive, Crucial X9 did that. I would love to get rid of the space in the name, which I suspect is the issue, the . "Chinese Clone WPS" does see pi-apps.desktop for example.
I ran 'sudo nano /etc/fstab' (I'm following instructions from an AI https://www.perplexity.ai/search/How-do ... Nt7.fr3UgQ) but it came back with ...
" GNU nano 7.2 /etc/fstab
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
PARTUUID=225734d3-01 /boot/firmware vfat defaults 0 2
PARTUUID=225734d3-02 / ext4 defaults,noatime 0 1
# a swapfile is not a swap partition, no line here
# use dphys-swapfile swap[on|off] for that"
but no /dev/sda2
I tried to rename it anyway with
sudo e2label /dev/sda2 "CrucialX9"
e2label: Bad magic number in super-block while trying to open /dev/sda2
/dev/sda2 contains a exfat file system labelled 'Crucial X9'
I am brand new to Linux but eager to learn. In a former life I was a Unix Admin (20+ years ago), just need to learn the lingo.
Statistics: Posted by BradReno — Thu May 09, 2024 10:15 pm