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 ex…

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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 [image] Linux Tips Tips, Tricks & …

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 com…

@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/plex as suggested in FAQ Configure overrid…

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. [image] Linux Tips Tips, Tricks & How-Tos 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 syste…

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In the linked FAQ, it’s actually /home/plexdata.

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