It's a permissions issue; Plex doesn't have permission to read stuff in my home directory. Thus, I think I need to re-mount it outside of my home directory, but I'm not sure on the best way to do that.
I doubt that Plex has some limitation related to browsing 5
directories deep. I'm curious what file system you've used on that
2.7T drive.
I know I've written things to ext3 and ext4 drives, reinstalled a
linux distro with my usual usernames (but randomly generated UID!) and
been unable to browse my reused storage media. This isn't a issue with
a VFAT drive, because those files don't have an owner.
See if your user account can browse that directory structure?
Maybe you will have to chown all the folders and files on that drive.
Does Plex run as its own UID, or does it use your usual user one?
(This question implies Plex is a server running on this machine, is
that the case, or are you using the Plex app on another device?)
Maybe you will have to add the Plex user to a group that has access to
that drive (or to hot mountable drives generally)?
- Drew
On Sat, Nov 30, 2019 at 10:51 PM Richard Klein via WLUG
<wlug@lists.wlug.org> wrote:
>
> I blew away my Linux Mint installation today and installed Manjaro. All my media for my Plex server was on a separate drive that was mounted at /Media. Now it's at /run/media/richspk/Media/, and Plex can't see anything below richspk. My /etc/fstab is much more spartan than I'd expected. sda is a Windows install, sdb is media, and sdc is the Manjaro install. Should I add /Media (sdb) to /etc/fstab, or should I mount it some other way? This is what /etc/fstab looks like right now:
>
> # /etc/fstab: static file system information.
> #
> # Use 'blkid' to print the universally unique identifier for a device; this may
> # be used with UUID= as a more robust way to name devices that works even if
> # disks are added and removed. See fstab(5).
> #
> # <file system> <mount point> <type> <options> <dump> <pass>
> UUID=26dedffb-3099-4a86-b565-c2e8adec81b2 / ext4 defaults,noatime,discard 0 1
> tmpfs /tmp tmpfs defaults,noatime,mode=1777 0 0
>
> And current block devices:
> NAME MAJ:MIN RM SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINT UUID
> loop0 7:0 0 89.1M 1 loop /var/lib/snapd/snap/core/8039
> sda 8:0 0 465.8G 0 disk
> ├─sda1 8:1 0 500M 0 part B6AAD05DAAD01BA5
> ├─sda2 8:2 0 464.5G 0 part E002D31A02D2F50E
> └─sda3 8:3 0 846M 0 part 9294B21894B1FF33
> sdb 8:16 0 2.7T 0 disk /run/media/richspk/Media 946b363e-ec7e-49d1-a5f2-f06caf8e4e21
> sdc 8:32 0 931.5G 0 disk
> └─sdc1 8:33 0 931.5G 0 part / 26dedffb-3099-4a86-b565-c2e8adec81b2
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