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Symbolic links are “poor form” in my book and should be avoided unless there is no other way.

HOWEVER, On Linux . we have the environment variable PLEX_MEDIA_SERVER_APPLICATION_SUPPORT_DIR

All we need to do is create a directory which will be that new “APP_SUPP_DIR” ,
customize the configuration,
Off we go :slight_smile:

On all ‘systemd’ linux systems (which is 99.9% of them now).

This How-To shows you

Here’s the Plan.

  1. Setup your new OS with new partitioning
  2. Install PMS and get the basic ‘claiming’ done. (easy stuff)
  3. Stop Plex
  4. Before we start populating it, we move things:
  5. For you, lets assume /home/plex

Create the directories

# create the base directory  (plex main and a tmp)
sudo mkdir /home/plex  /home/plex/tmp
sudo chown -R plex:plex /home/plex

now we EDIT the plex configuration to move its APP_SUPP_DIR

sudo systemctl edit plexmediaserver

Text editor opens,
type:

[Service]
Environment="PLEX_MEDIA_SERVER_APPLICATION_SUPPORT_DIR=/home/plex"
Environment="TMPDIR=/home/plex/tmp"

Save(write) the file and exit the text edit. the configuration will be saved to an ‘override.conf’ file for Plex. (/etc/systemd/system/plexmediaerver.service.d/override.conf)

Before starting Plex, let’s bring it from /var/lib to its new home

sudo bash
cd "/var/lib/plexmediaserver/Library/Application Support"
mv "Plex Media Server"  /home/plex
exit

One last system config refresh

sudo systemctl daemon-reload

Start Plex

sudo systemctl start plexmediaserver

And there you are, PMS is now running in /home/plex

As you start to add your library sections,

sudo du -ms /home/plex

You’ll see the space used increase

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