mounting-drive-plex-rpi

A short explanation how to mount the drive for you Raspberry-Pi-Plex-Server correctly

Find the right drive

With the command

lsblk

we get the list of all drives

Output:

pi@plex:/mnt/exSSD $ lsblk
NAME        MAJ:MIN RM   SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINT
sdb           8:16   0 223.6G  0 disk 
`-sdb1        8:17   0 223.6G  0 part 
mmcblk0     179:0    0  14.5G  0 disk 
|-mmcblk0p1 179:1    0   256M  0 part /boot
`-mmcblk0p2 179:2    0  14.3G  0 part /

In my case the SSD sdb1 is the correct one.

Mount it

First we create a folder to mount the drive to

sudo mkdir /mnt/exSSD

then we mount the drive to it

sudo mount /dev/sdb1 /mnt/exSSD

Set the permission for the current user (normally pi user)

This is the step most of the people miss and get some troubles when they try to store the data or download some new stuff.

sudo chmod ugo+wx /mnt/exSSD/

mount on startup

First we need to find the

sudo blkid

Output:

/dev/mmcblk0p1: LABEL_FATBOOT="boot" LABEL="boot" UUID="0F92-BECC" BLOCK_SIZE="512" TYPE="vfat" PARTUUID="dd7d86c0-01"
/dev/mmcblk0p2: LABEL="rootfs" UUID="41c98998-6a08-4389-bf74-79c9efcf0739" BLOCK_SIZE="4096" TYPE="ext4" PARTUUID="dd7d86c0-02"
/dev/sdb1: LABEL="Media" UUID="63B1-F995" BLOCK_SIZE="512" TYPE="exfat" PARTUUID="2fb3af64-01"

in my case the UUID is:

63B1-F995

we now need to make a change in the fstab file

sudo nano /etc/fstab

we append the line:

UUID=63B1-F995 /mnt/exdisk fstype defaults,auto,users,rw,nofail 0 0

at the end of the file

if we use exFAT

first run: