Hi,
So just got my raspberry pi 3 today and I am quite the noob. I've got everything set up and I have my PMS running, and I have plugged in a 1TB HDD into the pi. When I'm on my desktop of the PI, I can see the drive there, create folders and add media etc.
However, when I try and add the location into Plex, or use ruTorrent to download files to it, I am having no luck.
The directory atm is currently /media/root/data and so I really don't know what I'm missing.
Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks
Unable to load External HDD and show in Plex
Re: Unable to load External HDD and show in Plex
It could be that you don't have the user permissions set up properly in /media/root/data?
John
John
Re: Unable to load External HDD and show in Plex
I think you’re right. Could you talk me through step by step in how I set that up?
Re: Unable to load External HDD and show in Plex
cd /media/root
ls -la
Post the output here.
John
ls -la
Post the output here.
John
Re: Unable to load External HDD and show in Plex
Hi John,
Output here:
root@DietPi:/media/root# ls -la
total 12
drwxrwx---+ 3 root root 4096 Jul 27 22:58 .
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Jul 27 22:58 ..
drwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4096 Jul 27 23:45 DATA
Thanks
Output here:
root@DietPi:/media/root# ls -la
total 12
drwxrwx---+ 3 root root 4096 Jul 27 22:58 .
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Jul 27 22:58 ..
drwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4096 Jul 27 23:45 DATA
Thanks
Re: Unable to load External HDD and show in Plex
The data directory has write permissions for everyone so this can't be the problem. I see the directory DATA is in uppercase - can you check Plex and utorrent are looking for this directory as Linux is case sensitive unlike Windows?
John
John
Re: Unable to load External HDD and show in Plex
Hey John,
Just in case there is another permissions thing that I'm not aware of, I've done the same permissions command but in /media/root/DATA/tvshows and here is the output
total 8
drwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 Jul 29 13:05 .
drwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4096 Jul 29 13:02 ..
drwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4096 Jul 29 13:05 Young & Hungry
Just in case there is another permissions thing that I'm not aware of, I've done the same permissions command but in /media/root/DATA/tvshows and here is the output
total 8
drwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 Jul 29 13:05 .
drwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4096 Jul 29 13:02 ..
drwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4096 Jul 29 13:05 Young & Hungry
Re: Unable to load External HDD and show in Plex
Sorry I'm stumped here - hopefully someone can solve this?
John
John
Re: Unable to load External HDD and show in Plex
What user is PLEX running as, what are the sub directories listing as the user, does it match the one PLEX is running under (it shouldn't be running as root)
did you use dietpi-hardware manager to mount the external drive or did you do it manually?
Also might check in the PLEX config directory to see if there is something that might be amiss
Also, can you mount that /DATA to /media?
While digging around also found this
https://forums.plex.tv/t/how-to-stream- ... lved/18111
did you use dietpi-hardware manager to mount the external drive or did you do it manually?
Also might check in the PLEX config directory to see if there is something that might be amiss
Also, can you mount that /DATA to /media?
While digging around also found this
https://forums.plex.tv/t/how-to-stream- ... lved/18111