Ubuntu Plex recognized everything correctly except for my TV shows

[ChuckPa]

Whenever I plug the USB into Ubuntu it’s auto-mounted to /media/<user_name>/PLEX8TB

This is what you need to fix.

The automounter mounts with exclusive access to your username ONLY.
Username plex will not be allowed to read the data no matter any permissions you might apply.

To rememdy this, define the mount point in /etc/fstab
Linux supports mount by UUID= and LABEL= identification. This works well for USB devices because the /dev/sd* letter will change each time it’s removed and reinserted.

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 …

In this example, I show how to handle different cases.

Adapt to suit your needs;

1. Pick a mount point which doesn’t interfere with any existing directories
2. use blkid to get the UUID info.
3. Create the /etc/fstab entry to find it.

When done, the drive will always appear at the same mount point each time WITH the permissions you’ve set and Plex will be able to access it.