Hello, All, First post on the forums. I’m trying to figure out how to store the Plex Library (metadata) folder on a network share. I am running the last version of Plex on a Debian 10.7 machine. The network share successfully mounts at bootup and I’m able to read and write data to it with no issue…

systemctl will tell you if it’s reading the override. systemctl status plexmediaserver

I don’t see any reference to the override file in the systemctl status report. This is a completely vanilla install of Debian 10. The only thing I’ve setup on it besides Plex is cifs-utils for mounting the SMB share. Any other ideas? This is what my override file looks like: #Customize Plex’s co…

[image] Moving PMS 'Library' Desktops & Laptops 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.…

Done. Here’s the status output plexmediaserver.service - Plex Media Server Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/plexmediaserver.service; enabled; vendor preset: enabled) Active: active (running) since Tue 2020-12-08 10:54:39 CST; 54min ago Main PID: 780 (Plex Media Serv) Tasks: 45 (limit: 988) …

it would show [chuck@lizum ~.501]$ systemctl status plex ● plexmediaserver.service - Plex Media Server Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/plexmediaserver.service; disabled; vendor preset: enabled) Drop-In: /etc/systemd/system/plexmediaserver.service.d └─override.conf Act…

Warning: Do not use /media as it is a reserved directory with Gnome. Select a target directory not used by any system applications. Love the P.S.

Still nothing. Even though I’m not using Gnome, I even tried changing the Library location to somewhere other than the /media folder, but that didn’t make a difference. Could a permissions issue be causing the problem? Also, even if I don’t need to change permissions, do I still need the UMask=0002…

Even though I’m not using Gnome, I tried changing the Library location from out of the /media folder, but it didn’t seem to help. :’(

Folks, Rather than try to put a square peg (SMB) into a round hole (where NFS is needed), I’ve decided to write this out. You need NFS because most Linux hosts & NAS systems do not offer the needed SMB services PLUS you’re on a Linux host where SMB support is marginal and non-native. This post…

Thanks, @ChuckPa . I’ll give an NFS share a try. I was hoping there would be a log file somewhere that might give me indication that it was trying to read the override.conf file at all. I’ll give the NFS share a try, and I suppose if it works, then that will be good indication that it was the fact t…

Storing Metadata on SMB Network Share

Plex Media Server

ChuckPa December 8, 2020, 5:29pm 4

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Storing Metadata on SMB Network Share

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