RoonOS 3.0 USB drives says Read only

[Peter_Leinslie]

Trying to copy files from my windows computer to usb drives on my Rock/NUC. this cannot be done after i updated to Rock 3.0. File system is NTFS

What can be done about this?

[Geoff_Coupe]

Does it change if you click “Check & repair”?

Personally, I wouldn’t use the NTFS format with RoonOS - the combination has a history of being somewhat problematic.

[Peter_Leinslie]

It does not change.

[Geoff_Coupe]

Last thing to try is to put the drives back on a Windows PC and run Chkdsk on them. Don’t forget to eject them safely from Windows - don’t just pull the USB cable out.

[Suedkiez (Just a fellow user like you)]

Sounds like this change in OS 3.0

@ivan

RoonOS 3.0 build 272 earlyaccess Changes

• NTFS volumes flagged as dirty now mount read-only rather than failing to mount entirely.

@ivan

What’s new in RoonOS 3.0

USB Storage: automatic corruption repair

Drives that weren’t safely ejected from Windows or macOS are now automatically handled on mount, rather than failing or requiring manual intervention. Note that this is not a substitute for a full disk check — if a drive keeps having issues, running a repair tool on it from your computer is recommended.

So, as @Geoff_Coupe said

[Peter_Leinslie]

It’s ok now, after a chkdsk on my computer. I will never touch the check/repair button again!

I think you should find a better solution for this issue. When Roon OS 3.0 goes live, you’ll get a lot of reactions on this. Just a heads up.

[Suedkiez (Just a fellow user like you)]

@Peter_Leinslie

I will never touch the check/repair button again!

You didn’t say that you had, above?

@Peter_Leinslie

I think you should find a better solution for this issue. When Roon OS 3.0 goes live, you’ll get a lot of reactions on this. Just a heads up.

It’s better now than it was before, up to RoonOS 2.x, when unclean NTFS drives weren’t touched at all and simply didn’t appear.

When using a proprietary file system like NTFS, this will always be a problem. The open source reimplementations simply don’t have enough information about the file system to be able to safely repair it.

So a read-only mount, as it does now in RoonOS 3.0, is probably as good as it gets if the drive is marked as unclean.

The RoonOS documentation has advised against using NTFS drives forever.

[Peter_Leinslie]

What file system is most recommended?

[Suedkiez (Just a fellow user like you)]

USB Storage - Best Practice

If you’re going to directly connect a USB drive to your Roon Server, you will have some options about how you want to format your drive.

We recommend USB drives connected to ROCK be formatted exFAT if you require compatibility, or EXT4 if you don’t.

Advantages of using exFAT include:

1. Cross-platform compatibility (macOS, Windows, Linux)

2. No real limits on drive size or file size

ROCK will also work with NTFS ,FAT32, and EXT2/3/4 drives, but if you are starting fresh with USB storage, our recommendation would be to use exFAT.

ROCK: Storage Basics

[Peter_Leinslie]

Moving my music files to my windows pc and back again. Have formatted my nuc usb drive with exFat. Now just waiting for 8 TB of files to be copyed. Hope all will be ok after this move.

Must be entertained, in the meantime, by playing my Roon playlists in Qubuz. Not the same as Roon!