Trying to add my external harddrive as my media folder

[vyperluke]

I just setup a new dedicated machine for my plex server instead of running from my laptop. I am running the newest distro of Ubuntu, and I am trying to setup my folders for my movies, tv shows, etc… I can’t seem to find the correct path for it to recognize my mounted external hard drive. Any advice??

[tom80H]

how did you mount the drive?
could be a permission issue if the local plex user has no access to the drive.

[vyperluke]

Plugged it in, and it mounted itself.

[tom80H]

you might want to have a look at the Linux Tips & Tricks section

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 …