[solved] Problem with a Plex and my external hdd

[Fanplayer117]

Hello,

 

I'm coming to ask for help because I'm having a problem with plex and my external hard drive. Everything works well except that I do not see the folders at the folders of my external hard drive with the Plex interface, this is really frustrating especially since I can go to my hard drive via the file manager. I think this is a legal problem but I cannot resolve it. Could you help me ?

 

 

Thanks in advance =)

[TRS-80]

Welcome to the forums @Fanplayer117.

 

You didn't give much information to go on.

 

• What have you tried so far?
• What board, OS version, etc?
• How are HDDs connected?

 

I think you are on the right track with Plex, if you can as you say see the files via the file manager. Maybe try Plex forums (if there is such a thing? I don't use Plex).

 

And/or, give more information here.

 

In either case, please report back if you find an answer.

Edited February 2, 2020 by TRS-80
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[Fanplayer117]

Hi and thank you for your answer

 

I am on the Armbian Bionic 19.11.3 version which works on an Amlogic S905 Box. Everything works fine everything is well detected.

 

My Hdd is in Ntfs partition and contains all my films, it is well detected on my box I can navigate in the files without problems

 

My problem comes from Plex, when selecting the hdd in the interface it detects only the hard drive but not its subfolders. I think this is a security issue.

 

Is there a way to give Plex Superuser rights?

 

Thanks in advance =)

[Werner]

When navigating through the sub-folders did you try this as root or non-privileged user?

[TRS-80]

To me, NTFS is Windows technology. And last I read, it was not as well supported in GNU/Linux. Do you share the HDD across the network or with other (especially Windows) computers?

 

If not, I would have probably formatted it differently, and especially if only GNU/Linux boxes are touching it.

[Fanplayer117]

I succeeded, thank you for your advice.

I simply format in ext4 and miracle my 2 hard drives are detected and displayed on plex with a Chown command. I did not really understand why I was forced to format my 2nd hard drive but everything works!


Thanks again =)

[TRS-80]

I always use ext4 for "regular" Linux stuff, and NFS for network stuff (instead of Samba, etc. which are similarly only needed if you have share with Windows on the network). And everything "just works" flawlessly.

 

Glad you got it going, thanks for reporting back.

 

Cheers!