# Help for installing Plex Server on Ubuntu **URL:** \ **Category:** Plex Media Server\ **Tags:** server-linux\ **Created:** [August 9, 2024, 8:52pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/help-for-installing-plex-server-on-ubuntu/884856 "2024-08-09T20:52:48Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 18
**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:** [August 10, 2024, 7:36am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/help-for-installing-plex-server-on-ubuntu/884856/18 "2024-08-10T07:36:24Z")
If you’re going to be exclusively Linux then you’ll want ext4 or xfs filesystem. when you’re mixing operating systems, especially anything Windows with Linux, you must account for all the deficiencies inherent to Windows and its single-user per machine premise. I’ve written a how-to which will show you how to deal with the majority of those limitations as they relate to Plex. > [@Linux Tips](https://forums.plex.tv/t/linux-tips/276247/2): > > 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 … ExFAT was a licensed filesystem. If it still is for you then you’ll need to install that driver separately. `dpkg -l | grep -i exfat` will tell you if the exfat filesystem driver is installed. --- _[View the full topic](https://forums.plex.tv/t/help-for-installing-plex-server-on-ubuntu/884856)._