Hello. I am new to Linux and reasonably new to Plex. It installed fine on a Mint-64 PC. The problem I am having is browsing to an external USB drive of all the media. I cannot navigate to the folders needed when trying to add it as a media library. I can get to /media/bj/System F but no folders. The USB drive is /dev/sdb1 and putting that in as the library path does not work. It is formatted in NTFS .
/media/bj/System F and I tried that as well. My media is /media/bj/System F/Media I and /media/bj/System F/Media II
It’s driving me nuts and there must be a way to access it.
Drives automatically mounted under /media/user (or /run/media on certain distributions) cannot be read (or written) by any user other than the user, typically. This is because this location is managed by udisks2 and has Access Control Lists (ACLs) associated applied to it.
The recommended way to mount external drives is described here:
If you carefully follow that guide to mount your disk, Plex will be able to access it.
There is another method, which I don’t necessarily recommend. You can try modifying the ACLs for the auto-mount home for your user to allow Plex access. To do so, run the following command: sudo setfacl -m u:plex:rx /media/bj/
This will give user plex read and execute permissions to the bj directory, under which your disk is being mounted. I’ve only tested this under Ubuntu. You should probably just use the method described in the linked thread to set up permanent mounts though.
