Plex installation on GCP linux VM with GCSFUSE mounted object storage

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Hi. I have been trying to solve this by reading ChuckPa’s advice and the forums and am stuck.
I installed PMS on Google Cloud Platform (GCP) linux LTS 20.04 VM with GCSFuse mounted object storage. I got it to connect and run. I am stuck getting plex to access folders. I understand this is because linux locks permission to user at time of mounting. So, I followed directions for override.conf. I left out changing the data directory by commenting it out as I did not need it at this time.

gcsfuse myplexbucket mnt

Override.conf file

[Service]
User=larry
Group=larry

drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Oct 9 22:03 .
drwxr-xr-x 20 root root 4096 Oct 9 20:06 …
-rw-r–r-- 1 root root 377 Oct 9 22:03 override.conf

drwxr-xr-x 1 larry larry 0 Oct 9 20:47 mnt
$ ls -al
total 2314806
-rw-r–r-- 1 larry larry 2370360495 Sep 24 15:40 13-hours.mp4
drwxr-xr-x 1 larry larry 0 Oct 9 22:06 movies

One I make override.conf file, Plex stops working.
If I delete it, then Plex starts working again.

Any thoughts? Thanks in advance.

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When you changed the runtime user & group,
Did you also change the owning user & group of /var/lib/plexmediaserver (and all below it) ?

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Wow. That did the trick.
You are the man (or woman if appropriate).

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Ima dude :rofl:

Linux is VERY strict about ownership and permissions.

My How-To in Server-Linux-Tips expressly states this :slight_smile: