Posts by Lmnsour

Can I use a software to copy the boot partition from the SSD to a Thumb drive? I'm going to RMA the drive.

New drive, new build. It was working just fine but about a week ago started seeing these two errors. Drive is a WD Green SN350 1TB. Before I RMA, I just wanted to make sure there wasn't a potential known software issue.

Quote from KM0201

Uh, that's a bit unusual. I'm assuming your system was not compromised and your passwords changed.

Have you tried using root and your root password to SSH in? (assuming you had root ssh enabled) ?

This worked, thanks!

I just got back from a weeklong trip and when trying to login, I kept getting "Incorrect Username/Password" errors. I tried the next day and was able to log in. Tonight, I'm getting the errors again. I'm trying to reset but when using Putty to launch OMV-Firstaid, its asking for my user name and password and it keeps saying my password is incorrect. I have no idea how to reset/repair without a new install.

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

Been looking for a mini PC build for a Plex server. I don't have a ton of movies so I don't need a lot of storage but I wanted a few things that was hard to find:

-Intel Quicksync

-8+ GB of ram

-2.5Gbps NIC

-at least x2 2.5" HDD slots

-Less than $500

A majority of this wasn't hard to find but most mini PC's only 1 HDD slot but I found a number of Minisforum PC's with two 2.5HDD capacity but they were mostly AMD and close to if not more than the budget. Fortunately I found the TH50 which was an intel CPU (i5), 16GB ram, x2 2.5Gbs ports, and x2 HDD slots; best of all, less than $500 (Amazon.com: MINISFORUM EliteMini TH50 Mini PC 11th Gen Core i5-11320H Windows 11 Desktop Computer, 16GB RAM 512GB NVMe SSD, HDMI/DP/Thunderbolt 4(8K@60Hz) Outputs，2x2.5G RJ45, 6xUSB, 2xHDD Slot, Iris Xe Graphics : Electronics) - % 20 off cyber Monday btw.

I got lucky on ebay and picked on up for $350

My setup is a 1TB NVME boot drive partitioned for a data drive as well, x2 2TB SSDs setup with MergerFS, and a 2TB external HDD setup as parity drive (SnapRAID).

Way overkill for a Plex server but I'm happy given the cost and performance is great!

The one thing I don't like is the bios is locked down and I can't adjust the CPU voltage or power settings.

Got everything working, thanks again!

Quote from gderf

These are all incorrect. Look at the image documentation.

https://hub.docker.com/r/linuxserver/plex

Thanks, looks like I have more reading to do

Quote from KM0201

2 things.

When you post a compose file like that, use a code box (the </> icon in the formatting bar...). Docker-compose is very sticky about formatting errors and if you have one this will usually identify it.

#2, and more specific to your problem.

Look at your volume mounts again, and re-read what I put in post #5.. your volumes are not correct this is why it's not working.

- /srv/dev/nvme0n1p2/Docker-Compose/config... This one, I have no idea what you're doing with that one. docker-compose has nothing to do and really shouldn't be mapped inside Plex.

If I can make a suggestion for your /config folders. Make a folder in OMV (lets call it AppData) and use that for your config directories. Whatever you're doing with that docker-compose folder, it's probably not for this.

Now, go back and read post #5, specifically what I said about right and left side of the : and try changing it to something like this

Code

- /srv/dev/whatever-you-made/AppData/plex:/config   #this will be plex's config directory
- /srv/dev-disk-by-uuid-4b8543eb-2698-4678-9fa4-c7e06948722e/NVME_Movies:/NVME_Movies  #this will be a movies directory
- /srv/mergerfs/SSDs/SATA_SSD_Movies:/SSD_Movies  #another Movies directory

Now redeploy the stack.

Now go to Plex, Add A Library. Choose a Library type (I guess Movies in this case)

When it asks for a folder, find NVME_Movies and choose it.

Set up the scanner (language, etc.)

Then add the library. You'll see plex scan the folder and import the metadata.

Repeat this process for SSD_Movies.

When you're done, lookin your plex folder under AppData, and it will show your plex config data.

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Much appreciated!

Here is what I last used:

For Volumes, should I now use?:

- /srv/dev-disk-by-uuid-4b8543eb-2698-4678-9fa4-c7e06948722e/NVME_Movies

- /srv/mergerfs/SSDs/SATA_SSD_Movies

version: "2.1"

services:

plex:

image: lscr.io/linuxserver/plex

container_name: plex

network_mode: host

environment:

- PUID=1000

- PGID=100

- VERSION=docker

volumes:

- /srv/dev/nvme0n1p2/Docker-Compose/config

- /srv/dev-disk-by-uuid-4b8543eb-2698-4678-9fa4-c7e06948722e/NVME_Movies

- /srv/mergerfs/SSDs/SATA_SSD_Movies

- /tmp:/tmpfs-host

restart: unless-stopped

Quote from KM0201

I mean you can usually do this however you want

I usually recommend using stacks in portainer for newer users as I think it is a little easier start.

I also use a rather specific layout so I can keep things a bit organized.. but that is really my OCD talking more than anything

I tried it but it still doesn't work. Not detecting anything in the libraries. What do you mean by "stacks in portainer"?

Do you know why they have you create this folder but it's never used?

• plex — Your plex configuration (DB, metadata, cache, etc) will live here. Not the videos! They will be exposed to the docker container from an OMV share.

Quote from KM0201

It's honestly not an uncommon mistake for people who are new to docker.

Glad it helped.

So the instructions have you create three shares:

• docker — Your docker containers will live here (the software and config files that a docker image is made up of)
• docker-compose — Your docker compose files live here. That are just small YAML configuration files, which state which container to use and their environment variables (which OMV shares to bind to the docker containers internal paths, behavioral flags, network config, etc)
• plex — Your plex configuration (DB, metadata, cache, etc) will live here. Not the videos! They will be exposed to the docker container from an OMV share.

But never asks you to install anything or use the "plex" share.

For the volumes, I don't know if I got it right but I used the path to the Docker Compose share folder and the two Movie share folders and they read like this:

volumes:

- /srv/dev/nvme0n1p2/Docker-Compose/plex:/config

- /srv/dev-disk-by-uuid-4b8543eb-2698-4678-9fa4-c7e06948722e/NVME_Movies

- /srv/mergerfs/SSDs/SATA_SSD_Movies

That look about right?

Quote from KM0201

Is that exactly what is in your volumes section? Read this part again.

# Left: Your "videos" share. Right: Corresponding docker path. Can be any meaningful name you want.

So... lets assume your UUID is 1234567...

your config path would be:

/srv/dev-disk-by-uuid-1234567/plex:/config

As the bold above indicates... Left of the colon, is the actual path to the plex config folder on your server... Right oof the colon, /config, is the path where the container will save configuration data.

So looking at your volume paths (what you put above)

- /srv/dev-disk-by-uuid-4b8543eb-2698-4678-9fa4-c7e06948722e/NVME_Movies

- /srv/mergerfs/SSDs/SATA_SSD_Movies

You don't have a colon or anything on the right side of said colon, so the container cannot see the path.

So try something like this:

- /srv/dev-disk-by-uuid-4b8543eb-2698-4678-9fa4-c7e06948722e/NVME_Movies:/NVME_Movies
- /srv/mergerfs/SSDs/SATA_SSD_Movies:/SSD_Movies

Now restart the container.

When you go to add your movies to Plex... Add a folder, choose a library (Movies I guess in this case)

and instead of looking for /srv/whatever in the file tree... look for NVME_Movies and choose that directory for plex to scan.

Repeat for SSD_Movies

That's how you properly map volumes in containers.

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Wow, how did I miss that...? Thanks!

Quote from gderf

Post the volume statements you are using.

Let me know if I posted the right thing, thanks!

- /srv/dev-disk-by-uuid-YOUR-DISK-UID/plex:/config

# Left: Your "videos" share. Right: Corresponding docker path. Can be any meaningful name you want.

- /srv/dev-disk-by-uuid-4b8543eb-2698-4678-9fa4-c7e06948722e/NVME_Movies

- /srv/mergerfs/SSDs/SATA_SSD_Movies

Initially I left it unchanged but after TSing the issue, I changed it to this and removed / reinstalled (at least I think I did).

I just got OMV 6 installed and setup Plex using this guide: How to install Plex on OMV6 with docker image linuxserver/plex + On the fly transcoding files only in tmpfs (living on RAM not HDD) - Guides - openmediavault

Plex doesn't have access to read the Libraries I've assigned and I'm lost as to how to allow access / give Plex the required permissions.