Attempting to move the configuration files from by Ubunutu 22.04 install of Plex to a network share on my Qnap. I have the files moved. Plex is showing the media library but all the settings for the server show as “server settings are unavailable”. Hoping some kind soul can help me find the missing …

[image] Alez_G: Attempting to move the configuration files from by Ubunutu 22.04 install of Plex to a network share on my Qnap. Plex Media Server will run on the Ubuntu system and have the Plex Data Folder on the QNAP? Not recommended: [image] Linux Tips Tips, Tricks & How-T…

That was the warning I should have seen. Ok, I’ll go another route. Thank you for the quick responce!

@Alez_G What are you ultimately trying to accomplish?

My goal was to have the configuration files live on the qnap. My Ubuntu server ran out of space before Plex finished indexing my libraries. I suppose a 500gb SSD wasn’t enough space. I have another 3 bays on the Ubuntu box. I’ll install a trio of 1tb disk, I believe ubuntu supports a software raid …

@Alez_G A 500GB usually is enough How Ubuntu partitions the SSD is usually the problem. (/var is part of / which is very small by default) How much space do you have in /home ? (That’s where I put mine) I do the following: sudo bash mkdir /home/plexdata chown plex:plex /home/plexdata systemct…

[image] Alez_G: I have another 3 bays on the Ubuntu box. I’ll install a trio of 1tb disk, I believe ubuntu supports a software raid 5. That should give me 2tb of space for plex and the other apps. yes, it does. you’ll install mdadm. If you want RAID 5, on 3 devices (all 3 drives are the s…

@ChuckPa I followed your advise and moved my config files to the /home as recommended. I’ll note that I ran into some issues running the commands as one lump copy\paste. I decided to start with a fresh install of plex as the config files weren’t important, but it probably would have been fine to mo…

OOOPS. I see what happened. This is what I wrote… you got the interim version some how. sudo bash mkdir /home/plexdata chown plex:plex /home/plexdata systemctl stop plexmediaserver cd /var/lib/plexmediaserver tar cf - . | (cd /home/plexdata ; tar xf -) you need root for both the tar create and t…

Thanks @ChuckPa Not really an on topic question but I wanted to make sure I expanded my partition correctly. I ran lsblk and got this: NAME MAJ:MIN RM SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINTS loop0 7:0 0 61.9M 1 loop /snap/core20/1405 loop1 …

Did you remember to resize2fs (see man resize2fs for details) to have the filesystem grow to take advantage of new newly expanded LVM it sits on? I’m not seeing where the three new disks are part of the LV try this: lsblk -Mo NAME,STATE,TRAN,HCTL,MODEL,REV,SERIAL,TYPE,SIZE,FSTYPE,MOUNTPOINT,FSS…

Moved application support directory to nas

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FordGuy61 June 20, 2022, 6:47pm 2

Plex Media Server will run on the Ubuntu system and have the Plex Data Folder on the QNAP?

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