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I just moved my server to a new machine. Mostly everything went smoothly. But, I am now getting the “No write access to destination” error. I assume it’s permissions, but I cannot figure it out. As far as I can tell everything is plex:plex 775.
namei -l /disks/dvr2/moviedvr/
f: /disks/dvr2/moviedvr/
drwxr-xr-x root root /
drwxrwxr-x root plex disks
drwxrwxr-x plex plex dvr2
drwxrwxr-x plex plex moviedvr
It’s a plain ubuntu box.
Thanks for any suggestions.
What does “mount” show? is the disk mounted r/w?
Thanks for the suggestion. Fstab is cloned from previous machine, so I would think that’s not it. Mount shows this…
/dev/sdd on /disks/dvr2 type ext4 (rw,relatime)
If it matters, drives are all in a USB Yottamaster drive box. Everything was working fine on the old machine. On the new machine, I have tried deleting the tuners and re-setting up the DVR. No luck.
Ok sounds good. Let’s see if the plex user can actually create a file in that filesystem. You’ll most likely have to make a temporary change to the /etc/passwd file. You should be able to:
sudo vi /etc/passwd
the plex user probably has /sbin/nologin as its shell. Change it to /bin/bash. Now:
su - plex. You should be the plex user now. Cd to the dvr filesystem and do a simple test:: touch testfile, see if it gets created.
Don’t forget to change the login shell for the plex user back to /sbin/nologin when you are done testing.
Thanks again for your help. I seem to have figured it out. Plex was getting confused about which computer was in charge of DVR tasks, and the old computer was trying to do the recording, but the disks were in the new machine. I didn’t notice since the paths were all the same.
When I stopped Plex on the old machine, and re-set up the the DVR, things are seemingly working.
I am planning to continue to use the old machine, but not for Plex. What do I need to do? Just uninstall PMS?
I’m not 100% sure. I think one thing you’ll need to do is go into your plex account and remove the old server. After that I think its as simple as uninstalling plex on the old system
Since you’ve got DVR writing to the drive…
Unmount it… make certain the directory is writable first. Then mount it again and verify the filesystem is writable … Silly Linux 
In case you didn’t see above. I figured it out. As usual, it wasn’t silly Linux. It was dumb Mike.
LOLOL
I didn’t see it.
My apologies. Was a long day with a new machine which didn’t pan out.
