Server Version#: 1.21.0.3711
Software: Ubuntu 20.04.1 LTS, 64 bit
GNOME Version 3.36.3
I am trying to set up libraries on my PMS using files from an external hard drive. I have followed the directions here:
and am still unable to browse to the folder with my media content when trying to set up the library. The only difference I can identify between my approach and that in the forum article is I set the mount point to /disks/“name of my ext HD”
Any help would be much appreciated.
Thank you!
One step, often overlooked, is setting directory permissions before mounting the HD.
The general sequence:
mkdir -p /mount-point/path - make what you needchown -R owner:owner /mount-point – set ownership so you are in controlchmod -R 755 /mount-point - Set 755 (you have R/W, everyone else has R)find commands again to set permissions of the file system itself ( IF ext4 )Unfortunately that did not work. still unable to see folder when I try to create a new library. any other suggestions?
Show me the /etc/fstab entry for this.
I was initially trying to mount in a directory I had previously created called “disks”, but after having difficulty went though your example ste; by ste; and set up the dir “usb” as is now reflected in this file. unfortunately it still doesn’t seem to work. see below for the info you requested. Thanks!
#/etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
# Use 'blkid' to print the universally unique identifier for a
# device; this may be used with UUID= as a more robust way to name devices
# that works even if disks are added and removed. See fstab(5).
#
# <file system> <mount point> <type> <options> <dump> <pass>
# / was on /dev/sda2 during installation
UUID=13d4dede-5c87-49e1-9615-ca894990e862 / ext4 errors=remount-ro 0 1
# /boot/efi was on /dev/sda1 during installation
UUID=CA13-F701 /boot/efi vfat umask=0077 0 1
/swapfile none swap sw 0 0
#Additions for external and internal drives
#Mount My Book (vfat) at /disks/mybook for Plex
UUID=3717-D230 /disks/mybook vfat defaults,auto,rw,nofail 0 0
#Mount Bad Ext Drive (hfsplus) at /disks/badexthd for Plex
UUID=55beffd3-9b19-3e2a-85db-8d35bb13a956 /disks/badexthd hfsplus defaults,auto,force,rw,nofail 0 0
#Mount Media Drive (ext4) at /usb/MyMedia for Plex
UUID=d8f4611d-bf4c-403f-a57d-4970e04ebe3e /usb/MyMedia ext4 defaults,auto,rw,nofail 0 1
Moderator Edit: Legibility
This tells me you are mounting the UUID 3717-D230 on /disks/mybook.
Before this mount occurred, did you set permissions 755 for /disks and /disks/mybook ?
(I often forget to)
Ok, I went back to mounting my external drive called “MyMedia” to the location /disks/MyMedia.
I went through very deliberately setting permissions with and without the disk mounted as outlined in both of your prior responses and still no luck. I can get the external drive to mount and unmount but plex doesn’t display the folder at all. In fact, I don’t even see the location “disks” when I attempt to create a library so I do suspect this has something to do with the permissions being set. I’m very greatful for the help. Please let me know what other information you need to help troubleshoot. Thanks!
Show me the directory listing please? (ls -la)
sorry. Directory listing of the mount point.
ls -la /disks
that looks good. are the permissions the same below those points?
Dir = 755
File = 644
?
Yes, just confirmed this
I’m still working hard to get more familiar with unix, so forgive me if this is basic, but I just tried unmounting the drive and it would only allow me to do this from root. Is this the way it should be set up? Is the fact that I can only mount and unmount the drive from root, yet trying to run plex with me as user perhaps preventing plex from seeing those directories and folders?
All device operations (includes mounting / unmounting devices).
If you’re coming from Windows, you can equate this to “System tasks must be done as the admin – and it will always require authentication before doing so”
Linux is that strict about permissions from files in your own directory to files someone else has.
The sequence I wrote and placed in server-linux-tips is how it’s done.
You substitute the device names and drive labels to suit your local configuration but the procedure, when followed, works every time.
If you want to show me each of your intermediate steps, maybe we can see where it went off track.
Ok, got it. Sounds good. I’ll do my best to show you what I’m doing step by step here and hopefully you can help catch the error. I really appreciate the help.
Please see below for pasted text and commands and output generated during setup.
Interestingly “ls /disks/*” did not really generate that much output. I’m not sure if that clues you in.
Also here is etc/fstab:
And after completing all the steps I go to plex to search folders to add media and see the following:
I know I’m probably overlooking something simple, but can’t seem to quite figure it out. Please let me know if there is any other information I can provide to help you help me!
Here is all the text from my setup commands:
paul_scholten@paul-MacBook:~$ df
Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
udev 979212 0 979212 0% /dev
tmpfs 201528 3264 198264 2% /run
/dev/sda2 244568380 15695592 216379732 7% /
tmpfs 1007632 316324 691308 32% /dev/shm
tmpfs 5120 4 5116 1% /run/lock
tmpfs 1007632 0 1007632 0% /sys/fs/cgroup
/dev/loop0 100224 100224 0 100% /snap/core/10444
/dev/loop1 56704 56704 0 100% /snap/core18/1932
/dev/loop2 100224 100224 0 100% /snap/core/10577
/dev/loop3 56832 56832 0 100% /snap/core18/1944
/dev/loop4 2304 2304 0 100% /snap/gnome-system-monitor/145
/dev/loop5 261760 261760 0 100% /snap/gnome-3-34-1804/36
/dev/loop6 223232 223232 0 100% /snap/gnome-3-34-1804/60
/dev/loop7 2304 2304 0 100% /snap/gnome-system-monitor/148
/dev/loop8 63616 63616 0 100% /snap/gtk-common-themes/1506
/dev/loop9 52352 52352 0 100% /snap/snap-store/498
/dev/loop10 52352 52352 0 100% /snap/snap-store/518
/dev/loop12 93184 93184 0 100% /snap/plexmediaserver/149
/dev/loop13 177152 177152 0 100% /snap/spotify/43
/dev/loop11 173440 173440 0 100% /snap/spotify/42
/dev/loop15 66432 66432 0 100% /snap/gtk-common-themes/1514
/dev/sda1 523248 7988 515260 2% /boot/efi
tmpfs 201524 24 201500 1% /run/user/1000
/dev/sdb2 11625227720 591960068 10447317344 6% /disks/MyMedia
/dev/loop16 93184 93184 0 100% /snap/plexmediaserver/154
paul_scholten@paul-MacBook:~$ sudo sh
[sudo] password for paul_scholten:
# chown -R paul_scholten:paul_scholten /disks
# chmod -R 755 /disks
# ls -la /disks
total 20
drwxr-xr-x 5 paul_scholten paul_scholten 4096 Jan 18 2020 .
drwxr-xr-x 26 root root 4096 Dec 9 23:42 ..
drwxr-xr-x 2 paul_scholten paul_scholten 4096 Dec 14 2019 badexthd
drwxr-xr-x 2 paul_scholten paul_scholten 4096 Jan 12 2020 mybook
drwxr-xr-x 10 paul_scholten paul_scholten 4096 Jan 22 2020 MyMedia
# flkid /dev/sdb2
sh: 4: flkid: not found
# bldkid /dev/sdb2
sh: 5: bldkid: not found
# blkid /disks/MyMedia
# blkid /dev/sdb2
/dev/sdb2: LABEL="MyMedia" UUID="d8f4611d-bf4c-403f-a57d-4970e04ebe3e" TYPE="ext4" PARTUUID="4d48c56e-8c78-473b-9bac-e250aef0583b"
# gedit /etc/fstab
(gedit:22267): Tepl-WARNING **: 21:43:32.872: GVfs metadata is not supported. Fallback to TeplMetadataManager. Either GVfs is not correctly installed or GVfs metadata are not supported on this platform. In the latter case, you should configure Tepl with --disable-gvfs-metadata.
# blkid /dev/sda1
/dev/sda1: UUID="CA13-F701" TYPE="vfat" PARTLABEL="EFI System Partition" PARTUUID="6d674713-270a-4791-abcb-f2381a8a0871"
# df
Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
udev 979212 0 979212 0% /dev
tmpfs 201528 3320 198208 2% /run
/dev/sda2 244568380 15696460 216378864 7% /
tmpfs 1007632 316212 691420 32% /dev/shm
tmpfs 5120 4 5116 1% /run/lock
tmpfs 1007632 0 1007632 0% /sys/fs/cgroup
/dev/loop0 100224 100224 0 100% /snap/core/10444
/dev/loop1 56704 56704 0 100% /snap/core18/1932
/dev/loop2 100224 100224 0 100% /snap/core/10577
/dev/loop3 56832 56832 0 100% /snap/core18/1944
/dev/loop4 2304 2304 0 100% /snap/gnome-system-monitor/145
/dev/loop5 261760 261760 0 100% /snap/gnome-3-34-1804/36
/dev/loop6 223232 223232 0 100% /snap/gnome-3-34-1804/60
/dev/loop7 2304 2304 0 100% /snap/gnome-system-monitor/148
/dev/loop8 63616 63616 0 100% /snap/gtk-common-themes/1506
/dev/loop9 52352 52352 0 100% /snap/snap-store/498
/dev/loop10 52352 52352 0 100% /snap/snap-store/518
/dev/loop12 93184 93184 0 100% /snap/plexmediaserver/149
/dev/loop13 177152 177152 0 100% /snap/spotify/43
/dev/loop11 173440 173440 0 100% /snap/spotify/42
/dev/loop15 66432 66432 0 100% /snap/gtk-common-themes/1514
/dev/sda1 523248 7988 515260 2% /boot/efi
tmpfs 201524 24 201500 1% /run/user/1000
/dev/sdb2 11625227720 591960068 10447317344 6% /disks/MyMedia
/dev/loop16 93184 93184 0 100% /snap/plexmediaserver/154
# umount /disks/MyMedia
# mount /disks/MyMedia
# ls /disks/*
/disks/badexthd:
/disks/mybook:
/disks/MyMedia:
'ASIPP DVD' Movies 'Music Videos' Workouts
lost+found Music 'TV Shows'
#
----------------------------Restarted computer as instructed after this step ------------------
paul_scholten@paul-MacBook:~$ ls /disks/*
/disks/badexthd:
/disks/mybook:
/disks/MyMedia:
'ASIPP DVD' Movies 'Music Videos' Workouts
lost+found Music 'TV Shows'
paul_scholten@paul-MacBook:~$ df
Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
udev 979212 0 979212 0% /dev
tmpfs 201528 3244 198284 2% /run
/dev/sda2 244568380 15664220 216411104 7% /
tmpfs 1007632 314704 692928 32% /dev/shm
tmpfs 5120 4 5116 1% /run/lock
tmpfs 1007632 0 1007632 0% /sys/fs/cgroup
/dev/loop1 100224 100224 0 100% /snap/core/10577
/dev/loop0 100224 100224 0 100% /snap/core/10444
/dev/loop2 56832 56832 0 100% /snap/core18/1944
/dev/loop4 261760 261760 0 100% /snap/gnome-3-34-1804/36
/dev/loop3 56704 56704 0 100% /snap/core18/1932
/dev/loop5 223232 223232 0 100% /snap/gnome-3-34-1804/60
/dev/loop6 2304 2304 0 100% /snap/gnome-system-monitor/148
/dev/loop7 2304 2304 0 100% /snap/gnome-system-monitor/145
/dev/loop8 66432 66432 0 100% /snap/gtk-common-themes/1514
/dev/loop9 63616 63616 0 100% /snap/gtk-common-themes/1506
/dev/loop10 93184 93184 0 100% /snap/plexmediaserver/149
/dev/loop11 173440 173440 0 100% /snap/spotify/42
/dev/loop12 52352 52352 0 100% /snap/snap-store/518
/dev/loop13 52352 52352 0 100% /snap/snap-store/498
/dev/loop14 177152 177152 0 100% /snap/spotify/43
/dev/loop15 93184 93184 0 100% /snap/plexmediaserver/154
/dev/sda1 523248 7988 515260 2% /boot/efi
/dev/sdb2 11625227720 591960068 10447317344 6% /disks/MyMedia
tmpfs 201524 20 201504 1% /run/user/1000
paul_scholten@paul-MacBook:~$ su
Password:
su: Authentication failure
paul_scholten@paul-MacBook:~$ sudo sh
[sudo] password for paul_scholten:
# find /disks/MyMedia -type d -exec chmod 755 {} \;
# find /disks/MyMedia -type f -exec chmod 644 {} \;
#
It would seem to me that you add /disks/MyMedia/Movies to your movies library and /disks/MyMedia/TV Shows to your TV library as the respective top level directories.
If you have Name (year)/Name (Year).ext structure under Movies, you’re good.
Similarly, if you have Name/Season xx/Name - SxxExx - optional title.ext under TV Shows, you’re also good.
Agreed, but I don’t seem to be able to navigate to those locations from within plex. My last screen shot shows a list of the folders I’m able to see when going through that process and /disks does not show up.
your screenshots do not show in the browser. They must be local file refernces???
You can always type in the path to the directory.
I suspect: sudo chmod 755 / will cure the browsing for you.
You can always start typing the path and then browse deeper.
Oh yes, sorry, I suppose they are local file references. My apologies. Unfortunately that did not help either.
