I previously had Plex Media Server on Windows 10 computer. I erased the OS disk and installed Proxmox for homelab purposes. I am trying to my server on Linux up and running but not sure how to best mount the NTFS drives with media in it. I used this guide to do PCIe passthrough and install PMS on U…

Please read the entire how-to You will see where the mount point directories have permissions which allow Plex to read (755) NTFS only suports 777 permissions In my example, I show the name of the directory to use which is independent of the username Please also note there is no username= r…

Migrating from Windows to Linux. Need guidance on mounting NTFS on Linux

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nighthawk23 January 27, 2025, 9:18pm 3

# Mount Chuck-2T (NTFS) at /disks/chuck2t for Plex
UUID=56EA5848EA582691                     /disks/chuck2t ntfs  defaults,auto,rw,nofail 0 1

I wonder if this allows only my user rw privileges or plex user or both?

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Migrating from Windows to Linux. Need guidance on mounting NTFS on Linux

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