Plex Permissions on Linux Server

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I recently decided to change my server over to a linux server (as requested) and came over the issue that i couldn’t select the folder i wanted which was called “Storage4”. I figured that this would be a permission issue and attempted to fix it, after multiple tries using other posts such as “Plex Wont Read Folders/Files on Mounted Drive in Linux Mint” and “https://askubuntu.com/questions/150909/plex-wont-enter-my-home-directory-or-other-partitions”, i pretty much gave up in annoyance. I have fixed the NTFS error on both of my hard drives.

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Have you checked out the Linux Tips?
I’m not fully sure if Linux and NTFS are such a great combination…

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No such file or directory for ‘inherit’
As you can probably tell, i’m not too good with Linux…

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NTFS does not use Linux permissions.

Therefore, the ntfs-3g drivers & packages yield the equivalent of fully open (full access).

If PMS cant read the files , the most common problem is where the drive is mounted.

In Ubuntu, Fedora, and most other systems using Gnome, /media is a reserved directory. As such, anything visible in there is exclusive access to you. User plex will have no access.

Please provide additional details. A good starting point is a df output capture (copy/paste as ‘code’) so we can see what you’re seeing.

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> Filesystem     1K-blocks      Used Available Use% Mounted on
> udev             4033540         0   4033540   0% /dev
> tmpfs             813212      1656    811556   1% /run
> /dev/sda2      114336932  10193368  98292480  10% /
> tmpfs            4066048      9476   4056572   1% /dev/shm
> tmpfs               5120         4      5116   1% /run/lock
> tmpfs            4066048         0   4066048   0% /sys/fs/cgroup
> /dev/loop0          2304      2304         0 100% /snap/shell2http/68
> /dev/loop1         58496     58496         0 100% /snap/powershell/14
> /dev/loop2          8704      8704         0 100% /snap/shadowsocks/30
> /dev/loop3         89088     89088         0 100% /snap/core/4917
> /dev/loop4         89472     89472         0 100% /snap/smonitor/5
> /dev/sda1         523248      6228    517020   2% /boot/efi
> tmpfs             813208        40    813168   1% /run/user/1000
> /dev/loop5         91648     91648         0 100% /snap/core/6130
> /dev/sdd1      976760828 708797156 267963672  73% /media/serverpc/Storage 3
> /dev/sdc1      976760000 497475028 479284972  51% /media/serverpc/Storage4
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Please notice.

  1. /dev/sdd1 and /dev/sdc1 are automounted under /media, with username serverpc
  2. The disks labels are “Storage 3” and “Storage4”

Please use this procedure for both sdc and sdd to create new mount points away from /media (the root problem here)

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I’m a bit confused on D, could you explain it a bit more please?

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I found this article to be helpful regarding fstab.

https://www.howtogeek.com/howto/38125/htg-explains-what-is-the-linux-fstab-and-how-does-it-work/

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Which part of step D confuses you?

In my example, I show the new line for one of the disks added.

# Addtions for external and internal drives
# Mount Media-3 (ext4)  at /disks/media3 for Plex
UUID=50f1a141-bc8a-48ba-9b29-8a7bee8043e9 /disks/media3  ext4  defaults,auto,rw,nofail 0 1

Is there something in that which you don’t understand about the step or something else ?

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I thought i had it but plex is acting up again, now i can’t see the “disks” folder in my directory from Plex.

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