Folder Permissions

[bataeag]

I am running Linux Mint 14 and trying to set up my Plex library. I have 3 physical drives. On my primary drive, I can load videos and access them via Plex. When I move the files to another physical drive, Plex cannot see any of the files/folders. I have verified that I am the owner of the files, and that all other users have Access rights to the folders (same as when they are on my primary drive).

Also possibly related, when I boot my system up, it does not automatically Mount the other drives, even though I have set them in the Disks menu to Mount on Boot. I have to click into Computer then click the drives before they Mount.

Sorry this has probably been answered somewhere else.

[jahid]

post the output of

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cat /etc/fstab

replace usernames with "user" if any.... (optional, for security purpose)

[bataeag]

# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
# Use 'blkid' to print the universally unique identifier for a
# device; this may be used with UUID= as a more robust way to name devices
# that works even if disks are added and removed. See fstab(5).
#
# <file system> <mount point> <type> <options> <dump> <pass>
# / was on /dev/sde1 during installation
UUID=fce818ce-38c3-4829-9d9e-403538160536 / ext4 errors=remount-ro 0 1
# swap was on /dev/sde5 during installation
UUID=2afce653-4fe1-4f4a-80a7-6cea55a63c84 none swap sw 0 0

[Flemur]

When I move the files to another physical drive, Plex cannot see any of the files/folders. I have verified that I am the owner of the files, and that all other users have Access rights to the folders (same as when they are on my primary drive).

That might be a "Plex" issue - how do you know Plex cannot see the files? And you can access them otherwise, with a file browser or whatever, correct?

With the disk mounted, run this in a terminal:
$ blkid

Also possibly related, when I boot my system up, it does not automatically Mount the other drives, even though I have set them in the Disks menu to Mount on Boot. I have to click into Computer then click the drives before they Mount.

Here's a thread about that:
http://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.p ... 6&t=179154

[bataeag]

So Plex has a web-based interface, and when I have the movies on my primary drive, I tell Plex where the files are, and it displays them, and I can play, edit, move, delete, etc. my library and playlist. When I have the movies on my secondary drives, and tell Plex where they are, it comes up with a blank library. I can browse through the file system and see the media files under \media\FDrive\Movies, and I can access the files locally via VLC or other media players.

[jahid]

You need to add an entry for each of your partitions for automounting at bootup in the /etc/fstab file. Post the output of

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sudo blkid

as flemur stated. Then I will be able to tell you the exact lines that you need to add in that file..

[bataeag]

/dev/sde1: UUID="fce818ce-38c3-4829-9d9e-403538160536" TYPE="ext4"
/dev/sdf1: LABEL="FDrive" UUID="7ab9b9ed-36d0-43f9-8545-a82ff372876f" TYPE="ext4"
/dev/sdg1: LABEL="GDrive" UUID="1DE3E2B01612C610" TYPE="ntfs"


The FDrive is the drive in question

[jahid]

Fist open the /etc/fstab file to edit:

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gksudo xdg-open /etc/fstab

Then add the following line into that file:

UUID=7ab9b9ed-36d0-43f9-8545-a82ff372876f /media/user/FDrive ext4 defaults 0 0

user will be replaced with your username.
Then reboot and go to /media/user and select the FDrive folder then right click and select properties and change the permissions for subfolders and files as you wish. It will be permanent from now...

You can also use /media/FDrive instead of /media/user/FDrive if you wish. But in that case you need to create the folder FDrive first (if not exist already)

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sudo mkdir /media/FDrive

You can do the same thing to GDrive if you wish. But for this you won't need to change the permissions.

[bataeag]

Now when I boot I get a error: An error occured while mounting /media/user/FDrive
Press S to skip mounting or M for manual recovery

I can Skip and get to the OS, but the drive is still not automatically mounted.

[WharfRat]

Now when I boot I get a error: An error occured while mounting /media/user/FDrive
Press S to skip mounting or M for manual recovery

I can Skip and get to the OS, but the drive is still not automatically mounted.

Open the terminal and enter

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sudo -i

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mkdir /media/fdrive

Change your fstab entry to

UUID=7ab9b9ed-36d0-43f9-8545-a82ff372876f /media/fdrive ext4 defaults 0 2

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for e in kate gedit pluma;do if test -e /usr/bin/$e;then $e /etc/fstab;fi;done

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tune2fs -c35 /dev/sdf1

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mount /media/fdrive

This needs to be done once after you mount the partition. If there are files residing on it then set them as required

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chown $SUDO_USER:$SUDO_USER /media/fdrive

You can call fdrive anything you want, just make sure the folder matches the fstab entry.

Good luck

[WharfRat]

Now when I boot I get a error: An error occured while mounting /media/user/FDrive
Press S to skip mounting or M for manual recovery

I can Skip and get to the OS, but the drive is still not automatically mounted.

Open the terminal and enter

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sudo -i

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mkdir /media/fdrive

Change your fstab entry to

UUID=7ab9b9ed-36d0-43f9-8545-a82ff372876f /media/fdrive ext4 defaults 0 2

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for e in kate gedit pluma;do if test -e /usr/bin/$e;then $e /etc/fstab;fi;done

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tune2fs -c35 /dev/sdf1

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mount /media/fdrive

This needs to be done once after you mount the partition. If there are files residing on it then set them as required

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chown $SUDO_USER:$SUDO_USER /media/fdrive

You can call fdrive anything you want, just make sure the folder matches the fstab entry.

Good luck

[bataeag]

Thanks so much WharfRat, when I boot, both drives now mount, and I can access all my files in Plex. You rock!

[jahid]

Now when I boot I get a error: An error occured while mounting /media/user/FDrive

user needed to be replaced with your user name. Did you do that correctly?

Anyway it's solved now, so better mark this as solved..

[bataeag]

Yes, now its mounted as \media\FDrive