Jellyfin, Linux Mint, path to external drive problem.

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peejayw

1841 posts

Uber Geek

#311230 26-Dec-2023 08:43

Full disclosure, my knowledge of Linux is gossamer-thin, I get by with Google and cut/paste.

I have installed Jellyfin on a NUC running Linux Mint. The media I want to stream in on an external usb drive with foders for Movies, Music etc.

In Mint, under devices, the drive shows as /media/pat/FCD5-AC1F (/dev/sdb1)

When setting up Jellyfin to add the Media Library I select Movies as content type then click on Folders. Here I presume I am supposed to enter the path to the Movies folder so I enter /media/pat/FCD5-AC1F but I get an error "The path could not be found."

What should I be putting in here for the correct path?

Thanks.

I'm supposed to respect my elders, but it's getting harder and harder for me to find one now.

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nzkc

1571 posts

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#3175515 26-Dec-2023 09:22

The mount will only be available to your user (pat?) by default.

You'll want a permanent mount for it I suspect so that the Jellyfin daemon can access it too. Have a look at: https://linuxconfig.org/howto-mount-usb-drive-in-linux

Or, if you just want it temporarily you might be able to get away with amending permissions on the existing mount. At a minimum you'll want to grant read to everyone, but Jellyfin may also need write (no idea). Have a look at: https://linuxconfig.org/chmod If you want to get a little more clever you could change the ownership to whichever user jellyfin runs as too. But these approaches will likely only last as long as you have the usb drive plugged in. Removing and readding will reset permissions.

peejayw

1841 posts

Uber Geek

#3175719 27-Dec-2023 09:46

The link to mounting sorted it. I had to make a permanent mount then the path to the drive was /media/usb-drive/Movies etc

I'm supposed to respect my elders, but it's getting harder and harder for me to find one now.