Interest in Raspberry Pi and OpenMediaVault

[drmagoo]

These reports are bs and written by people who know nothing about Linux file permissions Just correctly mount your drives so that Linux user plex has at least read permissions. That is nothing special, just Linux 101.

Also make sure to attach the USB drives to a powered USB hub, not directly to the ports of your RPis.

Here is a Plex Linux permissions tutorial:

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 …