# External drive not visible in Plex

**URL:** <https://forums.plex.tv/t/external-drive-not-visible-in-plex/872790>\
**Category:** Plex Media Server\
**Tags:** server-linux, library-management, server-linux-arm\
**Created:** [March 21, 2024, 2:16am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/external-drive-not-visible-in-plex/872790 "2024-03-21T02:16:01Z")\
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**Author:** ![ChuckPa](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/plex/user_avatar/forums.plex.tv/chuckpa/32/79710_2.png) [@ChuckPa](https://forums.plex.tv/u/ChuckPa)\
**Post date:** [March 21, 2024, 9:05pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/external-drive-not-visible-in-plex/872790/4 "2024-03-21T21:05:39Z")

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I understand and that’s all superficial / immaterial.

Please now go read

> [@Linux Tips](https://forums.plex.tv/t/linux-tips/276247/2):
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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 …

as I posted.

For your case, where I show `/run/media`, you have `/media` (this is a Redhat / Debian difference with the automounter)

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