I'm working on an old HP tower that seems to not like any of the updates being pushed by Ubuntu. So I am still running 16.04. A recent update broke my entire system and I had to reinstall my OS. Since doing that I have not been able to find how I set the permissions for plex to be able to see my media folders.
They are currently split between two drives at the following locations /SharedSpace/Videos & /MyBook/Videos. This all worked last week and now I can't seem to find instructions that allow plex to access those folders to populate the library.
I also can not find where how to move the plexMD folder from the home directory to a partition that has more space.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Here is the output of my df -h command
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on udev 1.9G 0 1.9G 0% /dev tmpfs 388M 6.5M 381M 2% /run /dev/sda9 20G 2.1G 17G 12% / /dev/sda6 20G 3.6G 15G 20% /usr tmpfs 1.9G 51M 1.9G 3% /dev/shm tmpfs 5.0M 4.0K 5.0M 1% /run/lock tmpfs 1.9G 0 1.9G 0% /sys/fs/cgroup /dev/loop0 89M 89M 0 100% /snap/core/6964 /dev/loop1 90M 90M 0 100% /snap/core/6818 /dev/loop2 89M 89M 0 100% /snap/plexmediaserver/13 /dev/sda8 20G 106M 19G 1% /boot /dev/sda5 20G 13G 5.8G 69% /home /dev/sdb1 2.8T 2.5T 272G 91% /MyBook /dev/sda4 1.8T 1.4T 391G 78% /SharedSpace tmpfs 388M 44K 388M 1% /run/user/1000 /home/erskine/.Private 20G 13G 5.8G 69% /home/erskine /dev/sr1 7.7G 7.7G 0 100% /media/erskine/E2938 1 Answer
Unfortunately, the snap version of Plex Media Server can have the problem of not being able to read into other folders on the drive due to containment of the application. To solve this, first remove the snap version of Plex
sudo snap remove plexmediaserver Following this link here add the Plex repository to your system
echo deb public main | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/plexmediaserver.list Add the key
curl | sudo apt-key add - Update the system and install Plex Media Server
sudo apt update sudo apt install plexmediaserver If it complains that it is already installed, it would be best to reinstall it
sudo apt install --reinstall plexmediaserver Run Plex normally. The following link can help with moving the metadata to another location for safe keeping.
Hope this helps!
