Im running plex server on a SSD and i have noticed that when several users are using plex the SSD gets almost full with only a few GB free of space. So now i want to move this directory to another harddrive that has better capacity.
So im wondering if there is anything i should take in mind here? Can i simply copy all the folders and its content to another drive and then just define the new directory in the settings?
@“Bartlomiej Baraniec” said:
What you saying is suggesting that your Transcoder temporary directory is located on that SSD and that’s why it get’s full when few users are watching simultaneously. If that’s the case you could move that directory to different drive: https://support.plex.tv/hc/en-us/articles/200250347-Transcoder
Thanks for this @“Bartlomiej Baraniec”
I think i will start out changing this directory and see if it helps me out some more.
100gb should be the minimum size for a win10 box running plex.
I have a big library and my PMS folder is 75gb - and that is without thumbnails or trailers !
I have a 250gb drive
I need to do this for a Linux system. My root partition / which includes /var/lib/plexmediaserver is only a 64GB disk. I just recently had it fill and it looks like /var/lib/plexmediaserver is using most of the space. I need to move this -large- area to /home/plex/plexmediaserver , basically off the SSD an onto a large RAID-5 array where it is welcome to keep consuming large quantities of disk space.
My first thought is to “cp -aR” the directory and then make a soft link “ln -s /var/lib/plexmediaserver /home/plex/plexmediaserver”. Is there a better approach? I can’t let Plex continue to live on the SSD when it has this much appetite for disk space.
