# Manjaro - Cannot add Libraries on Mounted Drive **URL:** \ **Category:** Plex Media Server\ **Tags:** server-linux\ **Created:** [July 31, 2022, 11:16pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/manjaro-cannot-add-libraries-on-mounted-drive/802782 "2022-07-31T23:16:31Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 2
**Author:** ![pshanew](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/plex/user_avatar/forums.plex.tv/pshanew/32/160555_2.png) [@pshanew](https://forums.plex.tv/u/pshanew)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2022, 12:07am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/manjaro-cannot-add-libraries-on-mounted-drive/802782/2 "2022-08-01T00:07:34Z")
If the disk is automatically mounted by the operating system it more than likely has ACLs associated with it; no amount of chown’ing will allow users/groups who aren’t specifically granted permission to do so to access it. You can check to see if this is the case by running `ls -al /run/media/` or `ls -al /run/media/garphylet/`. Look for a “+” at the end of the permissions; if present, it means that ACLs are in use. Likely the best solution would be to set up permanent mounts for the disk using the information found in this forum post: > [@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 … --- _[View the full topic](https://forums.plex.tv/t/manjaro-cannot-add-libraries-on-mounted-drive/802782)._