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[ChuckPa]

Thanks for the posts above:

Symlinking /var/lib/plexmediaserver is, sorry to point out, about the worst way to do this.

The choices are:

1. mount --bind /var/lib/plexmediaserver /home/plex – An overlay mount
2. Creating a systemd override and avoid all mounts and links.

Here is my How-To.

Moving PMS 'Library'

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 system returns init, please see the next post in this thread. While you may change /lib/systemd/system/plexmediaserver.service, it is under the control of the package manager and subject to replacement without warning at any time during an update. To provide stability, systemd allows creation of an override.conf file to customiz…

Let’s get PMS in a stable site configuration posture and proceed from there.