Host Plex Metadata on NTFS drive

Plex Media Server
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I have a specific use case where I would like to store the Library for Plex on an NTFS partition of a hard drive so that I can boot between windows and linux and share the metadata. (so when I need to use windows for games I can run plex, too and not take my server offline)

I tried following Change Metadata Location on Ubuntu 14.04 but when I did that and started Plex it acted like I had no libraries.

I have a 500GB partition (probably overkill but I have 2TB of server space on root)

└─sdd4 Plex 500G ntfs 0FEFAC262C08CBDB

I mount that to /Volumes/plexmediaserver

Then I bind that to /var/lib/plexmediaserver

sudo mount -o bind /Volumes/plexmediaserver/ /var/lib/plexmediaserver

I navigated the files, and I could access them just fine, I checked the Preferences.xml and it looked correct. But when I start it up, nothing works.

I double checked the permissions, still no luck:

drwxr-xr-x 3 plex plex 4096 Jul 23 18:21 plexmediaserver

Is there something I’m missing here?

Thanks!

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where is the media stored?

windows and linux use different path separators / vs \ and you can’t easily swap between linux/windows mounts.

also, really its impossible to do anything other than guess, unless you post the server logs.

if Plex Web works, then > settings > left side scroll bottom > troubleshooting > download logs > drop zip file into reply.

otherwise manually zip logs @

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Here are the logs from my most recent try, this is after I put it back so if it does not contain when is needed I can do it again and re-post those.

Plex Media Server Logs_2020-07-23_19-06-07.zip (1.2 MB)

My thinking here is that, from what I tend to read, Windows can read ext4 drives but could very well mess it up writing. The media is stored on other ext4 mounts, but that should be a read only task. I’m trying to make it as a seamless as possible when I boot into windows. But maybe there are issues I’m not considering with trying to do it this way.

Would it perhaps work better if I were to run a virtual machine or something from Windows of linux and use my linux root drive?

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Can’t be done. Windows and Linux are storing folder paths and symbolic links fundamentally different.
You cannot share a Plex data folder from a Windows Plex Server with a Plex server running on Linux.

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