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changed FSTAB to ensure disk can back to same mount point if the PI rebooted

Thanks - found it

but overnight the disk error came back nothing changed

and TADA ...... restarted zoneminder and it now works. Forcing the directory create for events as the www-data user appears to have resolved the issue - plus adding the fairfacts.conf file with the path. Now I only get a telemetry error and the full 2 TB (well 1.7 available) shows in storage .... YAY

HUH regardless of the log error Can't mkdir /media/fairfacts/zonedata/events/1: Permission denied zoneminder DID successfully create events/1 (and 2,3,4 - I currently have just 4 streams registered) but the directories are empty, so MKDIR succeeded but the next operation to read the directory (and ...

This is really a test for a future system that will run up to 16 cameras so I will likely have to buy another PI but with bigger memory and a bigger flash card for that purpose (since I did start to see lag when testing more cameras - although I suspect that was more shortage of disk space than ...

Lol I DID all the mount and file (and install) operations through the terminal. I dont have any visual tools installed other that file manager which is pretty useless ! I actually prefer to SSH into the PI and use my windows machine because copy and paste works better (and I make less mistakes ...

PROGRESS...

Recreated the fairfacts.conf file in etc/zm/conf.d
contents
ZM_DIR_EVENTS=/media/fairfacts/zonedata/events
and now the log message is better !
Can't mkdir /media/fairfacts/zonedata/events/1: Permission denied
but still some
Path /media/fairfacts/zonedata does not exist.
in the logs.

PS in my original post:
How you installed ZoneMinder - Install on Debian Bookworm (PI5) 8GB ram, 32gb SD card, 4 cores, 19gb / 30Gb free on system drive

I get that might be an option - but I have only 5 cameras and run pihole and will likely run homeassistant and it should be ok. I dont want to use a 'parts cannon' and solve problems I dont have - this drive access seems to have been an issue in the past and may still be an issue that likley has an ...

If I drop back to fairfacts (a directory on the PI in the path to the mount point:
Default /media/fairfacts local Medium 7.23GB of 28.69GB
it works but its writing to the PI drive and shows the capacity of the PI not the USB

Anything 'deeper' doesnt work

after 777 Note fairfacts is a higher level directory so I shouldnt (?) need to change that right and didnt - but I did apply to the child directories: fairfacts@raspberrypi:~ $ ls -la /media/fairfacts total 12 drwxr-x---+ 3 root root 4096 Feb 12 21:06 . drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Feb 12 19:44 ...

fairfacts@raspberrypi:~ $ ls -la /media/fairfacts total 12 drwxr-x---+ 3 root root 4096 Feb 12 21:06 . drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Feb 12 19:44 .. drwxr-xr-x 5 root root 4096 Feb 12 21:17 zonedata fairfacts@raspberrypi:~ $ ls -la /media/fairfacts/zonedata total 36 drwxr-xr-x 5 root root 4096 Feb 12 ...

Describe Your Environment Version of ZoneMinder - zoneminder-v1.36.33 How you installed ZoneMinder - Install on Debian Bookworm (PI5) 8GB ram, 32gb SD card, 4 cores, 19gb / 30Gb free on system drive Full name and version of OS: Debian Bookworm Distributor ID: Debian Description: Debian GNU/Linux 12 ...

I pulled one that wasnt getting an IP to check. Opened the shell (its an inside camera looking down the stairwell at the front door so no daylight or water) and the wiring from the POE adapter to the camera boards has simply lost almost ALL of its insulation inside the camera shell. I separated the ...

I got it this morning ! I went through several sets of instructions and tested apache and that my zoneminder was running cleanly. I thought it was a config error on apache that was not 'pointing' at the zoneminder directories but I spent hours poring through the configs and eventually decided to be ...