So, I wiped my working plex media server on windows 10 and rebuilt it with Linux Mint. Mounted movies, tv shows, home movies to my NAS through fstab. Everything works, but my local server disk now has zero free space. With windows, it did not move all my data from NAS to the server disks, which I expected the same from Linux Mint. Obviously, a wrong assumption. How do I prevent all the data moving from the NAS to local drive and instead leave the data where it is? Did I do some wrong or is this how is suppose to work? Any suggestions? Thanks in advance!!
To add to Otto,
How much total space is available for you to use for PMS?
( Do you have multiple HDD/SSDs ? what are their capacities ? )
I ask this so you can plan how to partition the storage and where to put PMS
in preparation for
Thanks for the response! I have to say I am shocked by what happened. The computer I am currently using was windows 10 with plex running connected to a NAS. The data stayed on the NAS and was accessed by plex when required. I moved to Linux Mint because of Windows 11 would not run on the current computer. So, everything is the same except I am running Linux Mint. I thought Linux was supposed to be so much better than windows, but this seems crazy as to what happened. I have to figure out how to get into the system, but it won’t let me login right now. Mint is based upon Ubuntu. I only have one hard drive, I have a spare 7 TB drive. I will see if I can add it once I get access. I don’t even know how big the current drive is because I used the exact same system when I hosted plex on windows with nas.
@plexforum1 Do not use Mint. yes it s based off Ubuntu, but Mint has a lot of changes that make running Plex on it nearly impossible. Plex Devs have stated that Mint is NOT supported. Do yourself a favor and use Ubuntu.
When you start over with Ubuntu,
Partition 1 = 1GB - Boot/EFI
Partition 2 = 128GB - root partition
Partition 3 = 16 GB - swap
Partition 4 = <remainder of drive> - home partition
After software installed, but before adding media to Plex,
- Create
/home/plexas suggested in FAQ - Configure
override.confto point PMS to /home/plex - Startup, claim, and then load media into new server instance.
I am seriously thinking about it. The computer currently has a 500GB drive, would that be sufficient given that all the movies, tv series, etc are all stored on the NAS. It was for windows.
That will work to get you started.
Make 100% certain you erase all the old partitions from the Windows installation.
I am confused about /home/plex because plex is a nologin user so there would be no way to create it.
I cannot find the FAQ that mentions /home/plex. Can you provide a link?
In the linked FAQ, it’s actually /home/plexdata.
In the FAQ, I used plexdata to make the name more self-descriptive.
The actual name, as long as it doesn’t conflict with anything else, does not matter.
I used plexdata so it was more obvious that it’s Plex's data (your server internals)
How skilled are you with Linux?
Yeah, I only mentioned it because @plexforum1 took it very literally (understandable) and I wanted to provide a little clarification so they could proceed.
Also, just a quick mention. In the FAQ you mention manually creating the override file. On systemd based systems, you can generally just run sudo systemctl edit servicename.service and, if it doesn’t exist, the override file will be created (if you edit it).
I used unix/linux long time a go. It is funny how vi came back to me when I was using it. I was not an administrator, but I was able to mount 4 file shares on a NAS using Samba. It generally takes me longer to get things done, but I figure it out.
