My guess is that it's sdb instead of sdb1 simply because there's only a single partition on the drive, but that's just a guess.  Using the UUID seems safer, in any case.

You're right, it's not in my home directory, per se, but it seems to effectively be another home directory; I'm the owner, and plex doesn't have the permissions it needs.  I *can* rename, move, delete, and otherwise manipulate the files in there, but plex can't see them.

On Sat, Nov 30, 2019 at 11:24 PM Andrew Oprea via WLUG <wlug@lists.wlug.org> wrote:
Ok, I'm with you that Plex can't read the directory structure, but I
don't think that drive is mounted in your home directory.
Your home directory is /home/richspk right?
The machine is mounting that drive at /run/media/richspk/Media
I'm guessing that mount point is owned by your user, rather than root,
or a group that Plex is part of.
If you'd like to try mounting it back to /Media you'll need to make
that directory with:
# cd /
# mkdir Media
and then add a line to fstab to mount the device there: (here's my
shot at it, no promises i get it right right first try)
sdb     /Media     auto     defaults

This line makes me vaguely uncomfortable because I'm expecting the
partition 'sdb1' rather than the drive 'sdb', but sdb is what it shows
in your current devices.
If it fails to mount, try: sdb1     /Media     auto     defaults
or: UUID=946b363e-ec7e-49d1-a5f2-f06caf8e4e21     /Media     auto     defaults

- Drew

On Sat, Nov 30, 2019 at 11:09 PM Richard Klein via WLUG
<wlug@lists.wlug.org> wrote:
>
> 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.
>
> On Sat, Nov 30, 2019 at 11:05 PM Andrew Oprea via WLUG <wlug@lists.wlug.org> wrote:
>>
>> 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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