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Esso
Asked: 2014-10-15 13:16:05 +0800 CST

Plex Media Server cannot seem to find data on my disks

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I have a few drives with content on, and I've added these to a media library for TV Shows. I've mounted them under /media/username and added the mounts to my fstab so they're mounted upon boot. This is what I found to be essential in the documentation from Plex.

The problem is that Plex does not find any content there, even though I can browse the files from the Files-application (and they're mounted there when the system starts.) The drives from fstab:

/dev/sdb1    /media/esso/Kilo   ntfs    defaults     0        2
/dev/sdc1    /media/esso/Golf   ntfs    defaults     0        2
/dev/sdd1    /media/esso/Delta   ntfs    defaults     0        2
/dev/sde1    /media/esso/Bravo   ntfs    defaults     0        2
/dev/sdf1    /media/esso/Hotel   ntfs    defaults     0        2

I suspect that some of the paramteres are wrong, but I can't figure them out. I've now added UUIDs as suggested.

Note that my library used to work with Plex on a Windows-installation, so I follow the naming conventions etc. Examples: eHow it looks in the terminal How it looks in Plex

All suggestions are welcome. Thanks in advance.

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1 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    Try this, I had this issue once. This helped me.

    By default, Ubuntu now uses UUID to identify partitions.

    UUID=xxx.yyy.zzz

    To list your devices by UUID use blkid

    sudo blkid
ls -l /dev/disk/by-uuid

    Your end result might be something like this:

    UUID=12102C02102CEB83 /media/esso/Bravo ntfs defaults 0 2

    Make sure your folders have read/write permissions. 

    chmod -R a+x /media/esso
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