External drive not visible in Plex

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1. Master list

Linux Tips

Tips & Tricks of the Linux trade. Below, you’ll find a collection of tips, tricks, and how-to’s to help make setting up, administrating, and using Plex Media Server on Linux a little easier. Reporting problems Using other hard drives (Windows or Linux) with PMS Customizing your Plex configuration on systemd based systems Using other EXT4, NTFS, or other drives (internal or USB) Mounting CIFS + SMB network shares for Plex use Mounting NFS network shares for Plex use Moving…

2. External or Internal drives

Linux Tips

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 …