Hello all, I’ve been reading this community from the outside for some time, and I finally decided to dip my toe into Linux a bit. I have an old PC I was using to run Plex through a Windows install, but this is now a Linux Mint Cinnamon machine.
I have Plex Media Server installed and running, however I am having a hell of a time getting it to see my external drive where my media is located.
Trying a bunch of research, it seems like it is a permissions issue that I cannot seem to shake. Plex is able to see the drive, though nothing in it. I’ve googled as much as I can, but none of the suggestions seem to help me. I’ve tried to run the command chown, though I get an operation not successful error in return.
ls -la never shows the plex user or group listed, and I’ve tried for about 2 hours trying various things and have had no success.
Additionally, the other two drives I have connected are stuck in read only as well.
Anything I may have overlooked?
Check out this guide. I used it, it’s pretty good at describing stuff for new people.
I like this guide! However, I keep running into an Operation not permitted error when attempting to change the ownership to the plex.plex group. I’ve run into this a few times and cannot seem to get around it.
EDIT: Got it working, though still running into an operation not permitted error. Though, I unmounted and remounted the drives changing the uid to a new mount point. Plex is able to see the files now!
Now to start messing with docker…
EDIT 2: Short lived, changes revert after reboot and have to remount again with changes.
I think your drives may not be mounted correctly (they are not in your
fstabso the mount doesn’t persist after reboot); this comes up in the comments of the guide. Maybe this comment will help you.