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Plex Media Server
Using a Dell Optiplex MT desktop computer with the following specs:
- Intel i7-3770 processor
- 8GB DRAM
- 500GB SSD
- External USB expansion drive (media storage)
After plugging in the USB drive, determine current mount: (tempfs mounts not shown...)
$ df Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on udev 4002692 0 4002692 0% /dev tmpfs 805184 2984 802200 1% /run /dev/mapper/lubuntu--vg-root 490215384 6199136 459044984 2% / /dev/sdb1 3907002364 1305943016 2601059348 34% /media/jim/Seagate_Expansion_Drive
Note: The drive has been mounted with owner:group permissions jim:jim This appears to be causing a problem with Plex accessing the media as needed.
Determine USB information:
$ lsusb Bus 002 Device 004: ID 0bc2:3320 Seagate RSS LLC SRD00F2 [Expansion Desktop Drive] Bus 002 Device 002: ID 8087:0024 Intel Corp. Integrated Rate Matching Hub Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub Bus 001 Device 004: ID 046d:c313 Logitech, Inc. Internet 350 Keyboard Bus 001 Device 003: ID 046d:c077 Logitech, Inc. M105 Optical Mouse Bus 001 Device 002: ID 8087:0024 Intel Corp. Integrated Rate Matching Hub Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub Bus 004 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0003 Linux Foundation 3.0 root hub Bus 003 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
The VID:PID for this USB device is 0bc2:3320 http://www.linux-usb.org/usb.ids 0bc2 Seagate RSS LLC, 3320 SRD00F2 [Expansion Desktop Drive]
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