Plex Media Server

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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