# 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:** 20
**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 11, 2024, 12:18am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/help-for-installing-plex-server-on-ubuntu/884856/20 "2024-08-11T00:18:33Z")
> [@Peter\_Griffin](#): > > First, i formatted one of my external hard drive to ext4, and transferred a bit of my tv shows on the hard drive in my computer. After that, i added some files on the external hard drive and tried again to add the external hard drive and the files on the computer to Plex. That didn’t work… Plex dont see any folders in my external hard drive… 100% a permissions problem. (you see the top of the directory but cannot read the directory) > That didn’t work… Plex dont see any folders in my external hard drive… Did you follow this procedure? > [@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 … Common mistakes: 1. Letting the USB be discovered and automounted to end up in `/media/My_username/Disk_name` 2. Manually mounting it via /etc/fstab but FORGETTING to set the permissions of the mount-point directory BEFORE the mount. (you do set permissions twice) --- _[View the full topic](https://forums.plex.tv/t/help-for-installing-plex-server-on-ubuntu/884856)._