I am running Plex server on Manjaro. Installation was fine however I cannot see my HDD which is mounted at /run/media/lightofbuddha/HDD. The HDD is mounted and can be seen from nautilus, however plex doesnt seem to be able to access anything beyond my username.
I went through a bunch of posts but couldnt understand if it was a permission issue for the plex server or for the user itself. You can probably guess from my question that I am not very good at linux filesystem. I just wanted to try installing the server on the old laptop and seems like I have made some error somewhere that I myself cannot comprehend.
Please ask me whatever you need in order to understand my problem.
Most likely this is a permissions issue. Plex runs as a different user and your /run/media/lightofbuddha directory doesn’t allow other users read/execute permissions. This page likely will give you more information. Though if this is being mounted via the fact that you are logged into the UI on this machine and it auto-mounts external drives, this problem is likely to keep coming up. As a security precaution, permissions on certain directory are not permissive so I expect the permissions on /run/media/lightofbuddha to be reset to their current values every time you login.
You may be better off setting up this HDD with an entry in your /etc/fstab (assuming this drive is going to remain connected to this machine). Then you can mount it at a consistent location and set the permissions as you desire.
