Plex Server Ubuntu Has No Visibility To Drives

[reo4ua]

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I’ve had PMS running on a Windows 7 machine for years with great success. With W7 reaching end of life, I decided to install Ubuntu desktop after reading that PMS works on linux as well.

I’m in completely over my head as I have 3 hard drives in the computer that I’ve mounted and can see via the files app but I cannot get PMS to see them when trying to add folders to PMS.

I’ve gone through what I’m sure is a very accurate guide (at the link below) but I just can’t get it to work. I’m stuck at getting the editor to allow me to edit fstab. The file opens but I can’t seem to edit it. Once I get this sorted, I’ll know if I did the prior steps properly I suppose.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Using EXT, NTFS, or other format drives (internal or external) on Linux

This document is of primary interest to anyone who has connected USB drives or has media on other internal drives but user plex can’t access it due to Linux’s default security mechanisms. WARNING: This procedure will not work for SNAP, Docker or other container mechanisms unless expressly handled within the confines of the container. This procedure is intended for use with the dpkg package. We will walk through the steps needed to add these external USB hard drives and internal hard drives…

[ChuckPa]

1. you need root (sudo) permission to edit it
2. Depending on the editor, you might need the editor commands. May I recommend;
   sudo gedit /etc/fstab ?

(you may need to install it: sudo apt install gedit )