Question about Device ownership & file access
by bushy from LinuxQuestions.org on (#5STEA)
I have three USB attached HDDs. One is received from the manufacturer formatted NTFS, the other two were reformatted on a different LINUX computer as ext4.
I have installed Plex media server and added the three drives to it but Plex doesn't see any of the video files.
Checking the file permissions from the Properties tab while in a folder listed as "computer:///" using the "thunar" file manager I find the owner and group to be root. I subsequently used "chown -R guy:guy /media/guy/7Tb/". This didn't change root's ownership when checked the same way. However, using "ls -la /media/guy/7Tb/" shows ownership as guy:guy. Plex still didn't see the files.
Next I tried 'chmod -R 777 /media/guy/7Tb/" permissions are now open to everyone but still no luck with Plex.
Might my problem be that root:root is still showing ownership when I check it while in computer:/// ?
I have installed Plex media server and added the three drives to it but Plex doesn't see any of the video files.
Checking the file permissions from the Properties tab while in a folder listed as "computer:///" using the "thunar" file manager I find the owner and group to be root. I subsequently used "chown -R guy:guy /media/guy/7Tb/". This didn't change root's ownership when checked the same way. However, using "ls -la /media/guy/7Tb/" shows ownership as guy:guy. Plex still didn't see the files.
Next I tried 'chmod -R 777 /media/guy/7Tb/" permissions are now open to everyone but still no luck with Plex.
Might my problem be that root:root is still showing ownership when I check it while in computer:/// ?