Server Version#: 3.104.2?
Player Version#: 3.104.2?
During initial setup, when I try to add a folder to the library, the file requester starts at root ("/"), and I see all the usual linux directories (bin, boot, dev, etc,) there, but I don’t see my main ZFS media drive “bertha”, which appears in that same root folder. To check if it was a permission issue, I set permissions on the folder to 777. It’s still not recognized. How do I select that folder when I can’t make it show up in the plex broswer? Is there a config file I can manually edit? Thanks,
When you have a graphical desktop, the mount point is actually more important than the permissions.
On any distribution which uses Nautilus as the file manager (Gnome), nautilus will claim unmounted drives and mount them for you. The difficulty here is: These drives are exclusively visible to you alone.
The easiest way to check this is with the df command.
If you see /media or /run/media (redhat/fedora), then it’s been automounted.
You’ll need to find a non-conflicting place to mount the drive.
Once you do, you can reset those permissions back to normal and all will be fine.
Appreciate the reply, but I think there’s a misunderstanding. Nautilus isn’t mounting the filesystem, it’s mounted when zfs starts up during system boot. So there’s no /media automount happening.
When I do a df, I get z16/bertha 10033618176 6988645376 3044972800 70% /bertha
Nothing else in my system has any trouble accessing this folder. It’s my main repository for everything, from Steam Games to MythTV recordings to serving all my music files (via samba) to my Windows PC. I haven’t run into a problem like this in the 3 or 4 years I’ve had my zfs array.
Are you sure I can’t manually edit the location in a config file somewhere?
Not sure what OS you are running on but if I remember when I had ZFS and plex on my ubunutu box I had to adjust users/groups ZFS and plex belong to two different groups. So you either need to add the ZFS group to plex or plex user to the ZFS group.
