What do you get when you mix a Linux server + Auto Delete episodes + an NTFS external drive?

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I moved my server to Linux a few months ago and managed to get it going with one of my drives being an NTFS drive. I have set some shows that take up a lot of space to auto delete episodes after I watch them.

This works well on one drive that uses exFAT but I noticed that these episodes aren’t getting auto deleted if the show was stored on the NTFS drive. I confirmed it was drive related because when I moved one show that owed me 10GB of space to the exFAT drive, those episodes were deleted on the next refresh as I expected. Is there something (a permission perhaps) I need to give to Plex in order for it to be able to make changes to this drive?

Manually attempting to delete anything (manually from within Plex) results in the following error message:

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Related is also the fact that I can’t use that drive as an optimization target too.

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Kinda, not really a Plex thing, this is a linux issue - how are you mounting the drive now?

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It’s mounted automatically to /media/username/drivename. Same way as the other drive.

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yeah, that is never going to work well as the auto mounter is effectively adding restrictions on top of the disk permissions.

have you read this → https://support.plex.tv/articles/200288606-mounting-ntfs-drives-on-linux/

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To add:

Yes, This is a “Linux doesn’t like Windows” issue.

If you’re reformatting it , just use EXT4 or XFS and be done with it ?

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