[Napanno]

Guys I need some help here...

I'm working on my plex server using a Raspberry Pi and 2 WD PiDrives, my problem is that I have all my media storage in a Win 10 pc and my MajaroSatellite (I love this one!) and I'm looking the way to mount both drives in the PI but having the ability to unplug them and connect it to one of my systems to transferring my stuff w/out loosing the path in the plex library.

I've heard that I can mount them using dev/sda1..2..3 but what'd happen if I unplug both and connect the one designated as 2 first, will it keep the mounting point or it'll try to mount as 1?.

Hope you can help me

[Robbie Ferguson]

Hi Napanno,
First of all, I would only mount hard drives using the UUID. Don't use dev assignments since they are prone to change (especially for drives you're swapping in and out).

If I follow the question correctly, you'll need to SSH into the Plex server and:

1. Stop the Plex server:
   
   Code:

   sudo service plexmediaserver stop
   
   
   
   
2. Unmount the disk safely (assuming you mounted it to /mnt/library1 - update command according to your setup):
   
   Code:

   sudo umount /mnt/library1
   
   
   
   
3. Unplug the drive and take it to your computer, load up more files, etc.
   
4. Plug the drive back into the Pi.
   
5. Mount the drive (assuming you have correctly configured it in your /etc/fstab file):
   
   Code:

   sudo mount -a
   
   
   
   
6. Start the Plex server:
   
   Code:

   sudo service plexmediaserver start
   
   
   
   
7. Connect to the Plex server (ie. http://192.168.0.100:32400/web) and click the "..." next to the header "Libraries", then choose "Scan Library Files".
   

Good luck!

[Napanno]

Hi Napanno,
First of all, I would only mount hard drives using the UUID. Don't use dev assignments since they are prone to change (especially for drives you're swapping in and out).

If I follow the question correctly, you'll need to SSH into the Plex server and:

1. Stop the Plex server:
   sudo service plexmediaserver stop
2. Unmount the disk safely (assuming you mounted it to /mnt/library1 - update command according to your setup):
   sudo umount /mnt/library1
3. Unplug the drive and take it to your computer, load up more files, etc.
   
4. Plug the drive back into the Pi.
   
5. Mount the drive (assuming you have correctly configured it in your /etc/fstab file):
   sudo mount -a
6. Start the Plex server:
   sudo service plexmediaserver start
7. Connect to the Plex server (ie. http://192.168.0.100:32400/web) and click the "..." next to the header "Libraries", then choose "Scan Library Files".
   

Good luck!

Got it.. I'll give it a try and post the result in the forum, still have to think about the power management thing...

[Robbie Ferguson]

Did you have any success?

[Napanno]

Did you have any success?

Hey Robbie, sorry I've been crazy busy, let me tell  you what happened: I decided to go with open media vault because it uses the UUIDs and auto mount the HDDs but I wanted to stream in other devices so I installed plex server in parallel and I got the best of both worlds. Thanks for the help

[Robbie Ferguson]

My pleasure!

For the record, I would always use UUID on the Plex system itself as well (any Linux system). If anyone tells you to use /dev/sdaX, they're wrong. Your fstab should contain UUID=XXXXXXXXXXXXX.

So switching to open media vault "because" it uses UUID's is not really an issue - but I'm very glad you got it going!

In future (or for those wanting to know how) you'd type as root: blkid

Then, put that in your fstab in place of /dev/sdaX: UUID=XXXXXXXXXXXX - whatever the output for the partition was.

Thanks for the update!

[Brackston]

Really nice to know, Robbie.
I was planning on digging out my old Rpi and use plex on it.