You are right, now I can reboot and Plex starts, but it will not play anything. The message is “Please check that the file exists and the necessary drive is mounted.” I’m guessing that is because of the # to make the line a comment. Do I now go back and remove the # so it can mount? When I do that (and before I try to reboot) I get this:
** (gedit:3136): WARNING **: 16:43:29.691: Set document metadata failed: Setting attribute metadata::gedit-spell-language not supported
** (gedit:3136): WARNING **: 16:43:29.692: Set document metadata failed: Setting attribute metadata::gedit-encoding not supported
** (gedit:3136): WARNING **: 16:43:33.453: Set document metadata failed: Setting attribute metadata::gedit-position not supported
Should I reboot anyway?
Well I did reboot and that is definitely not the answer. I’ll have to restart the computer and re add the # mark to get it working again. Right now the only thing I can do is type in this box.
Not sure I understand what you want. I did re add the # mark and rebooted and the drives show up as they should. Right now the fstab file looks like "
# /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>
# / was on /dev/sda1 during installation
UUID=0387d828-f4be-46cd-910b-57a9a2d80770 / ext4 errors=remount-ro 0 1
/swapfile none swap sw 0 0
#UUID=A0DEA515DEA4E4AE /disks/seagate/plus-drive1 ntfs defaults,auto,rw,nofail,bg 0 0
The only thing different is the addition of the # on the beginning of the last line
With fstab like this the hard drives all show up as normal
That’s why we use the UUID value. USB drives will change letters. UUID will always find them and put them where they are supposed to be.
Since it’s only /dev/sdc1 you wish, sudo blkid /dev/sdc1
Paste the entire output (from command line prompt to the next command line prompt) here for me.
Save the file
Now, using the GUI “Eject” the drive if you can find it. I do not know Mint .
Once ejected, sudo mount /disks/seagate/plus-drive
If you are unable to eject it, Restart Mint
There should be no errors from it mounting
Verify with df and see it mounts at /disks/seagate/plus-drive
If it has indeed mounted, you are ready to use it with PMS at that location.
I did it as you said. It did indeed mount at that location. However Plex doesn’t play the videos Do I need to reboot?
After remounting it does not appear on the desk top as it did before. I’m back to the drive being not mounted/mounted as it was before
You now need to Edit each library section you have.
Add the NEW location (which is on the USB drive) and let PMS scan it.
PMS will mark your media with a 2 indicating it thinks its a duplicate.
When it’s all done, Edit the library again and remove the old folder location.
Repeat this for each library section.
When all actions are done, one final “Scan files” will verify everything is correct.
You should now be fully up to date with media locations and PMS can play it
Do I need to reboot?