Library in different location then Plex

Plex Media Server
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Hi,

How do I use a Library that is on a different drive to where Plex is installed? I am on Ubuntu 20.04 and I have tried changing the group of the folder I want to access to Plex but only the top level drive appears when I navigate to it… nothing in the right-hand side of the add media box.

Server Version#: Version 1.30.2.6563

Thanks,

Aaron

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I can’t get the movies to appear! I have put the mount stuff in the fstab and checked to see if it mounts ok which, it does. However, when I go to the location in Plex only the folder will display. None of the movies within the folder get detected when I can the location. If I put they in the default Plex folder (Library?) it works. However, this is not an option due the amount of media files and the size of the hard drive.

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@spehr_aaron_gmail_com

Where do you store your actual media ?

You can use internal , external USB, or network locations.

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I have my media on an other internal disk.

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COOL.

This is easily done.

  1. Decide on a mount point which isn’t anything already existing.
  2. sudo mkdir /mountpoint
  3. sudo chmod 755 /mountpoint ( sets the base directory permission)
  4. sudo mount /dev/sdXY /mountpoint (manual mount)

And now for the often-missed trick.

  1. sudo chmod 755 /mountpoint (sets the permission of the mounted filesystem)

Lastly, in /etc/fstab, add the line for the device (something like this)

Change <fs-type> to be ext4, xfs, ntfs, etc as appropriate

/dev/sdxx /mountpoint   <fs-type>  defaults,auto 0 2
  1. sudo umount /mountpoint ( unmount it )
  2. sudo mount /mountpoint (confirm fstab works as desired)

Now go look in there with Plex.

If you can’t see down very far, fix those permissions as well with ‘chmod’.

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I was able to get it to display installing Plex via Docker with help from this article.