Does each partition have the same permissions?
I believe so. I’m not sure - where do I verify the permissions? Is this within Plex or my Synology?
Can you explain a bit more for me?
This other drive you have, Did you plug it into one of the drive bays or is it an external USB -or- are you referring to other Shared Folders on your “Volume1” ?
Hi, I have two bays in my NAS, one HDD is a backup. So I only really have one drive with four partitions. I don’t recall changing permissions on any of these, so they all should remain the same.
I believe my one HDD in my NAS may be called Volume 1.
Is your Synology on DSM 6 or DSM 7?
All drives in Synology drive bays are 3 partitions when the operating system (DSM) is installed on them.
Your “Volume 1” (which you see as /volume1 in Plex) is partitioned as:
P1 = OS
P2 = Swap space
P3 = User data (RAID volume)
This is the same for DSM 6 and DSM 7
Are you comfortable with the Linux command line? If not, there are other ways through the Synology GUI. We will be able to see what DSM sees.
This will help us help you.
It’s DSM 6
Hi, is P1 P2 P3 short for Partition?
My partitions are based on file types. 1 partition is documents/person, second is music, third is photos, fourth is video.
I’m not familiar with Linux command lines but if you had a way that I need to navigate within Synology DSM that works. I operate on Windows 11 for my computer.
Yes… Partitions 1,2, and 3.
What I’d like you to do is have DSM create a HDD inventory for me to look at.
Control Panel → Task Scheduler → User-defined script
Runs as user root
Emails you the output
The exact contents to paste into the window are here:
#!/bin/bash
echo ======
parted -l
echo ======
df
echo ======
This will show me which harddrives are present and how DSM sees it.
After creating (saving) this. RUN it once.
The output will arrive in your email.
Please share that output with us here.
Thank you. I tried initially to run after your reply, but didn’t enable emails so the results never came to me. Then work got in the way. Below are the results:
Start time: Sat, 22 Jan 2022 21:14:16 GMT
Stop time: Sat, 22 Jan 2022 21:14:17 GMT
Current status: 0 (Normal)
Standard output/error:
Error: /dev/md2: unrecognised disk label
Error: /dev/mtdblock0: unrecognised disk label
Error: /dev/mtdblock1: unrecognised disk label
Error: /dev/mtdblock2: unrecognised disk label
Error: /dev/mtdblock3: unrecognised disk label
Error: /dev/mtdblock4: unrecognised disk label
Model: WDC WD60EZRX-11MVLB1 (scsi)
Disk /dev/hda: 6001GB
Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B
Partition Table: gpt
Disk Flags:
Number Start End Size File system Name Flags
1 1049kB 2551MB 2550MB ext4 raid
2 2551MB 4699MB 2147MB linux-swap(v1) raid
5 4840MB 6001GB 5996GB raid
Model: WDC WD60EZRX-11MVLB1 (scsi)
Disk /dev/sda: 6001GB
Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B
Partition Table: gpt
Disk Flags:
Number Start End Size File system Name Flags
1 1049kB 2551MB 2550MB ext4 raid
2 2551MB 4699MB 2147MB linux-swap(v1) raid
5 4840MB 6001GB 5996GB raid
Model: ATA ST6000VN001-2BB1 (scsi)
Disk /dev/sdb: 6001GB
Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B
Partition Table: gpt
Disk Flags:
Number Start End Size File system Name Flags
1 1049kB 2551MB 2550MB ext4 raid
2 2551MB 4699MB 2147MB linux-swap(v1) raid
5 4840MB 6001GB 5996GB raid
Model: Linux Software RAID Array (md)
Disk /dev/md0: 2550MB
Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B
Partition Table: loop
Disk Flags:
Number Start End Size File system Flags
1 0.00B 2550MB 2550MB ext4
Model: Linux Software RAID Array (md)
Disk /dev/md1: 2147MB
Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B
Partition Table: loop
Disk Flags:
Number Start End Size File system Flags
1 0.00B 2147MB 2147MB linux-swap(v1)
Model: Linux Software RAID Array (md)
Disk /dev/md2: 5996GB
Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B
Partition Table: unknown
Disk Flags:
Model: Unknown (unknown)
Disk /dev/mtdblock0: 1049kB
Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B
Partition Table: unknown
Disk Flags:
Model: Unknown (unknown)
Disk /dev/mtdblock1: 3080kB
Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B
Partition Table: unknown
Disk Flags:
Model: Unknown (unknown)
Disk /dev/mtdblock2: 4190kB
Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B
Partition Table: unknown
Disk Flags:
Model: Unknown (unknown)
Disk /dev/mtdblock3: 65.5kB
Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B
Partition Table: unknown
Disk Flags:
Model: Unknown (unknown)
Disk /dev/mtdblock4: 4096B
Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B
Partition Table: unknown
Disk Flags:
======
Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/md0 2385528 1024108 1242636 46% /
none 310612 0 310612 0% /dev
/tmp 329196 2064 327132 1% /tmp
/run 329196 13324 315872 5% /run
/dev/shm 329196 8 329188 1% /dev/shm
none 4 0 4 0% /sys/fs/cgroup
/dev/vg1000/lv 5809359680 5433647544 375593352 94% /volume1
Thank you for the listing.
As I read this:
Both your drives are in use. If you created a SHR partition arrangement then this is normal. 1 drive is the storage while the other provides the parity .
Thanks. So I suppose the original question remains. Do you have any suggestions?
As I walk through to add the “Animated” shared folder which is on Volume 1,
Initial opening
Go to /volume1, Observe shared folders of /volume1.
Scoll down and find Animated (Click it)
Back at the top, I now see /volume1/Animated (top) and the contents of that shared folder in the right panel.
I now click ADD and that’s it.
Which version of DSM are you using?
How long ago was the volume created? DSM 4? DSM 5? DSM 6?
Latest version DSM 6. Volume was created when I purchased the server, probably two years ago.
The question comes down to DSM 5 or not. It has been learned that DSM 5-created volumes are not fully DSM 7 compatible.
I had to convert a volume last week to fix the problem for one user.
While it can be done again, it’s important to know where the volume’s life began.
I would like you to do the following, which takes an inventory, so we can figure out how to proceed.
root
#!/bin/bash
ls -la /volume*
It will create a listing of all the storage volumes.
Before sharing that output, please review it and delete the names of any shared folders you want to keep private.
What I’m looking for are whether the ACLs are damaged or not; that’s all.
Hi, just got to this: @ChuckPa
Task: volume
Start time: Thu, 10 Feb 2022 14:39:44 GMT
Stop time: Thu, 10 Feb 2022 14:39:45 GMT
Current status: 0 (Normal)
Standard output/error:
total 216468
drwxr-xr-x 19 root root 4096 Jan 21 04:30 .
drwxr-xr-x 23 root root 4096 Jan 21 04:30 ..
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Jan 7 13:38 @S2S
-rw------- 1 root root 2318336 Jul 28 2018 @SYNO.Core.Smart.core
drwxr-xr-x 2 SynoFinder SynoFinder 4096 Mar 29 2021 @SynoFinder-etc-volume
drwxr-xr-x 2 SynoFinder SynoFinder 4096 Jan 1 21:45 @SynoFinder-log
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Sep 25 2020 @SynologyApplicationService
drwxr-xr-x 21 root root 4096 Jan 5 20:51 @ appstore
drwx------ 2 root root 4096 Mar 29 2021@autoupdate
drwxr-xr-x 6 admin users 4096 Jul 3 2018 @database
drwxr-xr-x 3 DownloadStation DownloadStation 4096 Jan 12 05:19 @download
drwxrwxrwx+ 7 root root 4096 Jan 1 21:36 @eaDir
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Jan 1 21:32 @synocalendar
-rw------- 1 root root 2220032 Jul 21 2018 @synocgid.core
-rw------- 1 root root 1001697280 Jul 10 2018 @synoelasticd.core
-rw------- 1 root SynologyMoments 2048000 Jul 4 2018 @synophoto-bin-t.core
-rw------- 1 root root 572039 Jan 13 21:04 @synovideometada.core.gz
-rw------- 1 root log 55824384 Jul 18 2018 @syslog-ng.core
drwxrwxrwx 8 root root 4096 Jan 21 04:31 @tmp
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Jan 1 21:30 @webdav
d---------+ 5 root root 4096 Dec 31 20:33 Plex
-rw------- 1 root root 20480 Jan 7 13:36 aquota.group
-rw------- 1 root root 20480 Jan 7 13:36 aquota.user
drwx--x--x+ 7 root root 4096 Dec 31 20:32 homes
d---------+ 5 root root 598016 Feb 9 16:30 music
drwxr-xr-x+ 24 PhotoStation PhotoStation 20480 Aug 12 15:51 photo
-rw------- 1 root root 5120 Jul 3 2018 synoquota.db
d---------+ 8 root root 4096 Jan 10 22:06 video
MODERATOR EDIT: Legibility
I see what’s happening.
I would like you to create a new shared folder. “Media” or something like that so you know it’s your media files. As you create it, give Plex access to the shared folder
Next, I’d like you to take your media files from video and move them to Media.
After everything is moved, Now setup your library sections. /volume1/Media/xxxxx as you would have if they were under /volume1/video.
If you wish to test this first, COPY a few over and confirm Plex can start seeing them
