Can not find attached HDD after updating mediaserver

[ChuckPa]

NO NEED to give plex ownership of your media … that’s wasteful.

The problem here is /media/<username> (the automounter) is grabbing the HDDs and causing the root problem.

You want the files to be owned by yourself but allow Plex to read them

1. Don’t put them where the automounter does – Nautilus does bad things.
2. Don’t put them in your home directory either
3. Pick any other non-conflicting place and mount the drive(s) there.

Change the names as you wish but consider this example as it works for all Linux.

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Using other hard drives (Windows or Linux) with PMS This How-To is written to help with Internal and External drives. It also is written to demonstrate how to cope with NTFS and EXT4 formatted drives. By logical extension, any format supported by Linux can be handled using the technique shown here. In all cases, the goal is to give user plex permission to read your media files which Linux doesn’t allow by default due to its strict security model. We will walk through the steps needed …