I have 32+TB using ext4 on my plex server. It is the default and a reasonable choice. Go for ext4 if you don't know a linux file system that you need. Also, you'll want the external disk NOT to use NTFS as the file system. You'll want to mount storage through the /etc/fstab file. I've been running plex server for years and used xbmc before that. "Disks" is not the way to mount storage for Plex. Could be someone with 1 day more knowledge than you have. Often times, they are created and posted by non-experts.
I figured it just didn't work so I went on until I figured out how to mount the external drive the right way (without Gnome Disks).Ĭan someone help me put it back to just being a server again that I can close the top on and let it run?Īs you can probably tell, I am a newbie and would appreciate any help especially if it was ELI 5'd.īe careful following random guides on the internet. Many of the instructionals said you have to install Gnome Disks first which I kept trying to do from shell. I think I MIGHT have accidentally installed a GUI when I was trying to mount my external drive. However, after about 5 minutes it goes into sleep mode and the Plex server shuts down. When I went to my other laptop and checked on Plex, it was running fine, so I just left it as it was. When I typed in my password it brought me into a desktop environment. When it finally restarted it went to a GUI log in screen. It went to the UEFI settings where I found that the 1st boot option was still to the USB, so I raised the OS to #1 spot. So I opened the laptop and manually restarted. Last night, however, when I was updating the Plex server I noticed that it said I needed to restart.
I figured out how to mount an external drive and was feeling pretty confident. The instructional showed how to set it so that closing the laptop cover doesn't shut the server down. I followed the guide and installed Ubuntu 20.04.2 LTS on an old laptop along with Plex Server. I am new to Linux, but read online that it's pretty easy to setup a media server with an old laptop.
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