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 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 wrote:

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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 wrote:

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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 _______________________________________________ WLUG mailing list -- wlug@lists.wlug.org To unsubscribe send an email to wlug-leave@lists.wlug.org

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I think I'll worry about it tomorrow. On Sat, Nov 30, 2019 at 11:31 PM Richard Klein wrote:

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:

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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 wrote:

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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.

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On Sat, Nov 30, 2019 at 11:05 PM Andrew Oprea via WLUG <

wlug@lists.wlug.org> wrote:

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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 wrote:

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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:

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# /etc/fstab: static file system information. # # Use 'blkid' to print the universally unique identifier for a

device; this may

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# 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 _______________________________________________ WLUG mailing list -- wlug@lists.wlug.org To unsubscribe send an email to wlug-leave@lists.wlug.org

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I installed Plex from AUR (I think that stands for Arch User Repository). This is the first time I've used an Arch-based distro. The ps output is attached, anyway. I bet mailman strips attachments. On Sun, Dec 1, 2019 at 9:17 AM Bill Minckler via WLUG wrote:

If Plex is installed as a snap, it can only see things in “/media”. I don’t know the district you are using so I don’t know how to check the package that is installed. Try “ps -ef | grep -i plex” (sorry if that command is odd or has odd flags). If it shows plex has snap in the name is an easy way to check.

On Sat, Nov 30, 2019 at 10:51 PM Richard Klein via WLUG < wlug@lists.wlug.org> wrote:

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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 _______________________________________________ WLUG mailing list -- wlug@lists.wlug.org To unsubscribe send an email to wlug-leave@lists.wlug.org

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ok, so no snap. a quick internet search of "/run/media/<user>" seems to point to a new automount location maybe. my ubuntu machine doesn't do this yet. That would probably happen when you log in, so if you want plex to run without you logging in, you would need to manually add it to fstab and put it somewhere else. On the permissions issue, it is possible that the user id of the plex user changed so it no longer has access (depends on who owned the directory structure in the last environment) Once you get the new location for the media drive, I would just chown or chmod everything that you want plex to have access to (but that's just me). Once you have it mounted, you could check the owner, group and permissions of a directory (not where the drive is mounted, use some subdirectory) with "ls -l", and we can look at those. Sorry if I intruded on anyone, I've been following the list, but the plex question struck a chord with me, I had this problem with a snap install before (and not realizing I was using a snap). On Sun, Dec 1, 2019 at 1:09 PM Keith Wright via WLUG wrote:

Richard Klein via WLUG writes:

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I bet mailman strips attachments.

Pay up, unless there was another one.

-- Keith

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[2:text/plain Show Save:psoutput.txt (714B)]

richspk 5030 24450 0 10:49 pts/0 00:00:00 grep --colour=auto -i plex plex 17486 1 0 Nov30 ? 00:00:15 /usr/lib/plexmediaserver/Plex Media Server plex 17541 17486 0 Nov30 ? 00:00:02 /usr/lib/plexmediaserver/Plex Tuner Service /usr/lib/plexmediaserver/Resources/Tuner/Private /usr/lib/plexmediaserver/Resources/Tuner/Shared 1.18.2.2058-e67a4e892 32600 /waitmutex plex 18000 17486 0 Nov30 ? 00:00:18 Plex Plug-in [com.plexapp.system] /usr/lib/plexmediaserver/Resources/Plug-ins-e67a4e892/Framework.bundle/Contents/Resources/Versions/2/Python/bootstrap.py --server-version 1.18.2.2058-e67a4e892 /usr/lib/plexmediaserver/Resources/Plug-ins-e67a4e892/System.bundle _______________________________________________ WLUG mailing list -- wlug@lists.wlug.org To unsubscribe send an email to wlug-leave@lists.wlug.org

I updated my fstab and rebooted, and I think it's working as it should (it's still scanning the libraries). I lost the metadata that keeps track of what I've watched, but that's not a big deal. Updated fstab attached for comparison. On Sun, Dec 1, 2019 at 8:12 PM Richard Klein wrote:

I think I just need sit down and edit /etc/fstab, but I'm procrastinating.

On Sun, Dec 1, 2019 at 5:21 PM Bill Minckler wrote:

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ok, so no snap. a quick internet search of "/run/media/<user>" seems to point to a new automount location maybe. my ubuntu machine doesn't do this yet. That would probably happen when you log in, so if you want plex to run without you logging in, you would need to manually add it to fstab and put it somewhere else.

On the permissions issue, it is possible that the user id of the plex user changed so it no longer has access (depends on who owned the directory structure in the last environment) Once you get the new location for the media drive, I would just chown or chmod everything that you want plex to have access to (but that's just me). Once you have it mounted, you could check the owner, group and permissions of a directory (not where the drive is mounted, use some subdirectory) with "ls -l", and we can look at those.

Sorry if I intruded on anyone, I've been following the list, but the plex question struck a chord with me, I had this problem with a snap install before (and not realizing I was using a snap).

On Sun, Dec 1, 2019 at 1:09 PM Keith Wright via WLUG wrote:

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Richard Klein via WLUG writes:

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I bet mailman strips attachments.

Pay up, unless there was another one.

-- Keith

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richspk 5030 24450 0 10:49 pts/0 00:00:00 grep --colour=auto -i plex plex 17486 1 0 Nov30 ? 00:00:15 /usr/lib/plexmediaserver/Plex Media Server plex 17541 17486 0 Nov30 ? 00:00:02 /usr/lib/plexmediaserver/Plex Tuner Service /usr/lib/plexmediaserver/Resources/Tuner/Private /usr/lib/plexmediaserver/Resources/Tuner/Shared 1.18.2.2058-e67a4e892 32600 /waitmutex plex 18000 17486 0 Nov30 ? 00:00:18 Plex Plug-in [com.plexapp.system] /usr/lib/plexmediaserver/Resources/Plug-ins-e67a4e892/Framework.bundle/Contents/Resources/Versions/2/Python/bootstrap.py --server-version 1.18.2.2058-e67a4e892 /usr/lib/plexmediaserver/Resources/Plug-ins-e67a4e892/System.bundle _______________________________________________ WLUG mailing list -- wlug@lists.wlug.org To unsubscribe send an email to wlug-leave@lists.wlug.org