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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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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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  • I tried this now, thanks! My drives are still mounted, but Plex still can't get my files. I assume that the folders are there as I can reach my files from any other application, but maybe there's some settings I've missed there?
    – Esso
    Oct 14, 2014 at 22:02
  • "chmod -R a+x /media/esso" I think you need read/write. Oct 15, 2014 at 14:38

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