tom80H
October 28, 2018, 10:44pm
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I suppose one element making this tricky is that there’s a number of different flavors of Linux systems handling things differently when it comes to this.
Have you had a look at the related support article?https://support.plex.tv/articles/202529153-why-is-my-plex-media-server-directory-so-large/ (section " Relocate your Plex Media Server Data Directory")
In this section you’ll also find a link to one of chuckpa’s forum posts where he breaks this down for the different Linux distro types:
Moving Plex’s metadata (Library) directory on systemd based systems
This information is intended for those systems where cat /proc/1/comm returns systemd. If your system returns init, please see the next post in this thread.
While you may change /lib/systemd/system/plexmediaserver.service, it is under the control of the package manager and subject to replacement without warning at any time during an update. To provide stability, systemd allows creation of an override.conf file to customiz…
