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I just created my first Ubuntu desktop machine to run as my media server for Plex. I have a new SSD with the OS on it, two 1TB drives mirrored, and one 1.5TB drive. The problem I have is that I cannot get to any of the drives outside of the SSD, and even the SSD shows as not mounted in the file manager. I feel like I hosed something up.

Plex can't see the additional drives that are in /media/username/...`,

Netatalk can't see any directories in there either, but I can connect it to /home/username/Documents without a problem.

I don't even know what info to provide to allow people to help me. I ran fdisk to see if anything was up, and saw two warnings:

WARNING: GPT (GUID Partition Table) detected on '/dev/md127'! The util fdisk doesn't support GPT. Use GNU Parted.
WARNING: GPT (GUID Partition Table) detected on '/dev/sde'! The util fdisk doesn't support GPT. Use GNU Parted.

I installed GNU Parted and the drive mounted as /dev/md127 (raid 1 drive) looked fine. Same for /dev/sde.

I have the SATA setup in BIOS to use AHCI for all but SATA ports 4 and 5 which are using IDE. The 1.5TB drive (/dev/sda3) is connected to port 5, and that's one of the drives I can connect to with file share, but not from any programs, but it's not one of the ones mentioned above in fdisk.

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  • fdisk shows those warnings because it works on MBR drives (i.e. msdos partition table in gparted), and not GPT drives. You're looking for parted instead.
    – zhongfu
    Apr 9, 2015 at 7:01
  • Could you provide the output of mount and lsblk?
    – zhongfu
    Apr 9, 2015 at 7:02
  • I figured it out. I had not set permissions on the /media folder so that anyone other than the owner could see/use them. It's all good now. Thanks for the assistance. Apr 12, 2015 at 2:53

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Permissions were not set on the /media folder to allowed for Plex to see those drives. I updated the permissions and plex was able to read/write to those folders as expected.

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  • what setting did you use?
    – Zanna
    Jul 27, 2017 at 18:09

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