Can't copy my media to the jellyfin movies

Hi everyone,

I've finally upgraded to OMV8 after being stuck on 4.....lol

I have two servers running it. one is the main workhorse the other has rsync set up to backup every night.

on the workhorse i have set up jellyfin. everything seems to be fine, I can access it. I just cant copy my movies to the folder.

I'm using linux mint to copy. it says i dont have the permission to create in that destination.

server address is /dev/sdd1/media/data/jellyfin/data/movies/

I'm going mad.......

James

Hi Bernh.

Thanks so much for responding.

I'm very new to all this and have just winged it using the wiki how too.

I am using SMB. Which works fine with all my storage drives including this one. From what I can tell I have permission to write as far as data.

The top folder/drive is media. So....

Media/data/

Once I get the the jellyfin folders it won't let me write. Strangely enough these folders are what the jelly fin client made for me when I first connected.

So the folder tree is

Media/data/jellyfin/data/movies/

I have permissions set for the first two but I have no idea how to do the folders that jellyfin created for me.

File browser I believe is Nemo but it will copy. Just not these folders in question.

Not sure what the difference is between mounted share and network share.

I have 3 HDD.

One called family

One called business

One called media

They are all separately mounted and only accessable on the internal network

openmediavault.workgroupStorage
Shared Folders

Name
Device
Relative Path
Absolute Path
Referenced
Tags
Status

Docker
/dev/sdd1
Docker/

Available

Media
/dev/sdd1
Media/

Media

Available

appdata
/dev/sdd1
Media/appdata/

Available

Backup_compose
/dev/sdd1
Media/backup_compose/

Available

Data
/dev/sdd1
Media/data/

Available

Family
/dev/sda1
Family/

Available

Business
/dev/sdc1
Business/

Available

1 selected / 7 total

I should also mention I tried the chmod 777 but it keeps saying directory unknown. Either I'm getting the directory wrong or it can't see the folders that the jellyfin client made?

Many thanks

James

Quote from Soma

The /dev Path is not a mount point to be used.

Post your yml of jellyfin to see what you have.

Also, post the output of

lsblk

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Many thanks for your help. I am very new so I will need a little direction please. I'm at work at the moment and won't be home till this evening to actually do anything.

Where do I find the yml please?

Lsblk to be input into GUI of wetty?

/Dev path not to be used? Please could you explain what that means.

Sorry.

I did notice that the instructions mentioned checking volumes but there was none there and no plus sign to add?

James

Quote from 88765432536

We need your real paths and yaml..

Example

Code

/srv/dev-disk-by-uuid-fd256144-addb-46d9-9328-96a0c99cc507/Backup/

Thanks.

I know what to look for now. I'll head into the depth of docker tonight I'll find what you are looking for.

👍👍

NAME MAJ:MIN RM SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINTS

sda 8:0 0 465.8G 0 disk

└─sda1 8:1 0 465.8G 0 part /srv/dev-disk-by-uuid-36323e9c-6860-45b1-b0f1-024bf50786ca

sdb 8:16 0 111.8G 0 disk

├─sdb1 8:17 0 106.1G 0 part /var/lib/containers/storage/overlay

│ /

├─sdb2 8:18 0 1K 0 part

└─sdb5 8:21 0 5.7G 0 part

sdc 8:32 0 698.6G 0 disk

└─sdc1 8:33 0 698.6G 0 part /srv/dev-disk-by-uuid-bc41840a-735b-43c9-8b0a-2312f88dfa88

sdd 8:48 0 698.6G 0 disk

└─sdd1 8:49 0 698.6G 0 part /srv/dev-disk-by-uuid-86deb74e-145c-48a4-a27c-2430ca5b1718

root@openmediavault:~#

root@openmediavault:~# ls -la

total 84

drwx------ 4 root root 4096 Feb 18 23:06 .

drwxr-xr-x 21 root root 4096 Feb 23 17:46 ..

-rw------- 1 root root 5502 Feb 25 17:42 .bash_history

-rw------- 1 root root 894 Jan 22 14:56 .bashrc

-rw------- 1 root root 301 Jan 22 14:56 .inputrc

drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Feb 16 18:21 .local

-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 132 Jan 2 12:35 .profile

drwx------ 2 root root 4096 Feb 16 18:25 .ssh

-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 215 Feb 24 18:00 .wget-hsts

-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 44824 Feb 18 23:06 openmediavault-omvextrasorg_latest_all8.deb

root@openmediavault:~#

# Date: 2025-06-01

# https://hub.docker.com/r/linuxserver/jellyfin

# https://jellyfin.org/docs/

services:

jellyfin:

image: lscr.io/linuxserver/jellyfin:latest

container_name: jellyfin

environment:

- PUID=1000

- PGID=100

- TZ=Etc/UTC

- JELLYFIN_PublishedServerUrl=192.168.5.46

volumes:

- CHANGE_TO_COMPOSE_DATA_PATH/jellyfin/library:/config

- CHANGE_TO_COMPOSE_DATA_PATH/jellyfin/tvseries:/data/tvshows

- CHANGE_TO_COMPOSE_DATA_PATH/jellyfin/movies:/data/movies

ports:

- 8096:8096

- 8920:8920 #optional

- 7359:7359/udp #optional

- 1900:1900/udp #optional

restart: unless-stopped

not sure if that includes the yaml file.'

let me know if i missed something

Thanks

Sorry, how do I do a code box?

Debian GNU/Linux comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY, to the extent
permitted by applicable law.
Last login: Thu Feb 26 17:04:43 2026 from 127.0.0.1
root@openmediavault:~# cd /srv/dev-disk-by-uuid-86deb74e-145c-48a4-a27c-2430ca5b1718/Media/data/jellyfin/movies
root@openmediavault:/srv/dev-disk-by-uuid-86deb74e-145c-48a4-a27c-2430ca5b1718/Media/data/jellyfin/movies#
root@openmediavault:/srv/dev-disk-by-uuid-86deb74e-145c-48a4-a27c-2430ca5b1718/Media/data/jellyfin/movies# ls -la
total 8
drwxr-sr-x 2 root root 4096 Feb 24 18:20 .
drwxr-sr-x 5 root root 4096 Feb 24 18:20 ..
root@openmediavault:/srv/dev-disk-by-uuid-86deb74e-145c-48a4-a27c-2430ca5b1718/Media/data/jellyfin/movies#

is the last one what you are after

Quote from 88765432536

Sorry. I was looking on my phone and did not see the bit at the bottom of bernh's post.

was the code i sent earlier what you are after or do you need it in the proper code box?