Acps Posted September 5, 2015 Share Posted September 5, 2015 So I have 2 external USB drives setup as NTFS, with media on them. I would love to be able to mount these so I can provide access to my Plex server. I have tried following the instructions for them at : http://lime-technology.com/wiki/index.php/Mounting_an_external_USB_drive_having_an_existing_NTFS_file_system_in_READ/WRITE_mode_to_transport_files_from/to_unRaid_server but I cannot get it to mount. At this point I am not sure what I am doing wrong, because I receive no error when I try to mount the drive after I installed the package correctly. Has anyone had any success in doing this, and if so could you point me in the right direction? Thanks in advance! Link to comment
itimpi Posted September 5, 2015 Share Posted September 5, 2015 If you install the Unassigned Devices plugin it should handle all of that for you. Link to comment
trurl Posted September 5, 2015 Share Posted September 5, 2015 That wiki doesn't have the correct ntfs-3g for 64bit unRAID v6. Try this one: NTFS-3G x64 Link to comment
Acps Posted September 5, 2015 Author Share Posted September 5, 2015 If you install the Unassigned Devices plugin it should handle all of that for you. That plugin was so simple lol. One thing now though, so it's mounting my drives to /mnt/disks/USBNAME , this may seem silly, but how do I point plex toward this now? I am having trouble figuring out the correct path, because just /mnt/disks/USBNAME didn't work. I tried using the entire link with the server IP as well, and that did not work either.Do I need to setup a user share and point it towards the drive? Link to comment
trurl Posted September 5, 2015 Share Posted September 5, 2015 How are you running plex? Docker, plugin, /boot/extra? Or on a computer other than your unRAID server? Link to comment
Acps Posted September 5, 2015 Author Share Posted September 5, 2015 How are you running plex? Docker, plugin, /boot/extra? Or on a computer other than your unRAID server? I have it setup as a docker, from the LimeTech official repo. Same computer, just have 2 external 5tb hard drives with my media on it. Eventually I will merge them into a NAS, but for now I would like to have it setup to pull from the USB drives. Link to comment
trurl Posted September 5, 2015 Share Posted September 5, 2015 Do you have that plex docker working already with files on your unRAID shares or disks? Do you have any other dockers working? Link to comment
Acps Posted September 5, 2015 Author Share Posted September 5, 2015 This will be my first docker, but as far as I know have it setup correctly. I have 2 4tb disks that I setup in my array right now, they are shared as disk1 and disk2. I have my share setup for Docker application, named appdata. I also made another share named just data as well for some random stuff. When I installed the Plex docker from the LimeTech official repo, I just followed the default settings, allowing 10gb of space for the PMS files. Other than that I have not done a whole lot. I am able to login to the Plex Server just fine from the dashboard, I just get hung up when I am trying to add my folders into application. It default wants to look in the Plex directory, which is my share, appdata, but the media I have is on 2 USB drives, that I have now mounted via the plugin, UnAssigned Devices. They are assigned as I stated above, and I can access them without any issue via the Main tab under the UnAssigned Devices label, all my media is there. I just am unsure on how to direct PMS to those mounted drives so it can access the media. At some point after I would like to be able to setup my PMS to my domain name, but that'll be after I get this figured out! Thanks for all the help so far! Link to comment
Acps Posted September 5, 2015 Author Share Posted September 5, 2015 I was tinkering around with the Volume Mapping under the Plex Docker settings. I am able to view my drives and navigate to the folders just fine. However when I try to apply the settings this is what I get: "root@localhost:# /usr/local/emhttp/plugins/dynamix.docker.manager/scripts/docker run -d --name="PlexMediaServer" --net="host" --privileged="true" -e TZ="America/Los_Angeles" -v "/mnt/user/appdata/plexmediaserver":"/config":rw -v "/mnt/disks/Plex_TV/Tv Shows/Ascension/Season 1/":"TV Show":ro limetech/plex invalid value "/mnt/disks/Plex_TV/Tv Shows/Ascension/Season 1/:TV Show:ro" for flag -v: TV Show:ro is not an absolute path See '/usr/bin/docker run --help'. The command failed." And for some reason it either removed the PMS docker or uninstalled it, because I had to go back in the repo and reinstall it because it was not on my dashboard anymore. I tried to install it and add the disks at the same time, and I got the same error. I was kind of excited when I found this in the settings, because it looks like exactly what I need to point PMS to the correct folders. But it didn't work, unless I am doing something wrong? Link to comment
Squid Posted September 6, 2015 Share Posted September 6, 2015 Your host volume path is saying TV Shows (a relative path). It should say /TV Shows (An absolute path) I assume that its safe to assume that you're just trying stuff out since you're only passing Ascension through as a path. Link to comment
Acps Posted September 6, 2015 Author Share Posted September 6, 2015 Yes, I was just trying to add a small folder of media to verify it is working before I add the parent folder of the entire media collection. Link to comment
Acps Posted September 6, 2015 Author Share Posted September 6, 2015 Welp, that was an easy fix, all my media is being interfaced with Plex now! Thanks for the help everyone! Link to comment
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