raspberry pi plex media server hdd format

I re-homed my plexmedia drive to /mnt and went with recommendations in this tutorial: I didn't think it mattered, but in my case it did. 'use /mnt for stuff you mount by yourself leave /media for the system to mount its stuff' Maybe this is out there in some basic Linux training, but I never knew this. Well, a little investigation showed me that /media is pretty much where auto-mount removable media ends up, and /mnt is where more non-removable items (like hard drives) should go. Some examples show /media and some show /mnt. (I hope the fix is permanent) Not being a super Linux guru myself, I did not know there might be a difference of which directory the mount point gets attached. Without seeing your request for the FSTAB yesterday, I had stumbled across a fix. Should Plex be a member of the Admin group? Thank you in advance!

Can anyone let me know which ID should own the files on the external hard drive? Should it be Root? Pi? or Plex? (the folders currently show as pi:pi ownership

I can see all the files in their folders when I SSH to the server, but Plex does not see or index them. The drive is NTFS formatted and mounts just fine with ntfs-3g. I'm thinking there might be an drive/folder/file ownership issue. The files are there, just Plex no longer sees them. So I renamed my mounted drive (it is now /media/pi/plexmediaserver) and all my libraries are now empty. In trying to troubleshoot, I had the server reload the libraries, but they never changed. I had placed about 8 new video files on the drive. I manually ran a scan, and nothing added as new. A few days ago, I noticed new files did not update on the Plex Server.

I have an 8 TB external drive connected via USB 3. Plex server is up to date (as of 10/2020) as well as the Raspberry PI OS (which is basically Linux). I've been running my Plex Server on my Raspberry PI 4 (8GB) for a while without any issues. Hello all - I hope someone out there can help me.

Raspberry pi plex media server hdd format