PLEX USB drive access?

[mahjohn]

Server Version#: 1.22.0.4145
Running on Raspbian Buster 10

Looking for some help here.

I have an external USB drive mounted at /mnt/usb and PLEX cannot see it. I have other things mounted in /mnt that PLEX can see just fine, just not /mnt/usb. Permissions on /mnt/usb are 777 and still no luck.

Thanks

[tom80H]

Permissions alone might not be enough when it comes to mounting an external drive (e.g. because the content of that parent folder might well get different permissions based on how the share/drive is mounted).

I recommend to take a look a the detailed tips & tricks section for Linux mounting issues

Linux Tips

Using other hard drives (Windows or Linux) with PMS This How-To is written to help with Internal and External drives. It also is written to demonstrate how to cope with NTFS and EXT4 formatted drives. By logical extension, any format supported by Linux can be handled using the technique shown here. In all cases, the goal is to give user plex permission to read your media files which Linux doesn’t allow by default due to its strict security model. We will walk through the steps needed …