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Media Library won't add - spaceexplorer23 - 2025-02-22

No matter what I do I keep getting the:

"The path could not be found. Please ensure the path is valid and try again."

Message trying to add Libraries. I am running Ubuntu, and I had this working using the fstab file to set permissions when it was a FAT drive I was using, but I had to change it to an ext4 drive to allow larger than 4 gb files and now nothing I do seems to be able to change the permissions such that I can actually add libraries.

I mount the drive (still in Fstab) as: /media/library/Media_1

and I had a group I created "media" as I thought the owner, but it still couldn't see it. Then I just changed the group to the "jellyfin" group, and still nothing. Is there a way to actually get this to work?

I use linux quite a lot but have never had an issue like this. Thanks for any help.

RE: Media Library won't add - TheDreadPirate - 2025-02-22

Run this command to show the permissions on the entire library path.

Code:
sudo ls -ld /media /media/library /media/library/Media_1

How is Jellyfin installed on Ubuntu? I'm assuming directly on Ubuntu and not with Docker.

RE: Media Library won't add - spaceexplorer23 - 2025-02-22

(Yesterday, 02:47 AM)TheDreadPirate Wrote: Run this command to show the permissions on the entire library path.

Code:
sudo ls -ld /media /media/library /media/library/Media_1

How is Jellyfin installed on Ubuntu?  I'm assuming directly on Ubuntu and not with Docker.

drwxrwxrwx+ 4 jellyfin jellyfin 4096 Dec  3 07:32 /media
drwxr-xr-x+ 3 tyr      jellyfin 4096 Dec  3 07:37 /media/library
drwxr-xr-x+ 6 tyr      jellyfin 4096 Feb 18 07:33 /media/library/Media_1

yes it's installed directly on Ubuntu

RE: Media Library won't add - TheDreadPirate - 2025-02-22

/media/library has an ACL as denoted by the +.

Code:
setfacl -b -R /media/library

That will remove the ACLs recursively.

RE: Media Library won't add - spaceexplorer23 - 2025-02-22

Ok I did that. I don't quite understand ACLs at this point, but that didn't in and of itself make it so jellyfin can access it.

What I WANT is the group "media" to own the whole thing, and every member of the group have read/write/all the privileges. And obviously jellyfin itself to be able to find my libraries.
that did remove the pluses, as I think expected on both library and Media_1
media has these "members" currently:

$ members media
sonarr sonarr jellyfin prowlarr tyr

RE: Media Library won't add - TheDreadPirate - 2025-02-22

ACLs are an additional layer of permissions that your average user doesn't need and overrides the standard linux permissions

Also, didn't notice that /media also has an ACL.

Code:
sudo setfacl -b -R /media
sudo chmod 755 /media
sudo chown -R tyr:media /media/library
sudo chmod -R 770 /media/library


RE: Media Library won't add - spaceexplorer23 - 2025-02-22

(Yesterday, 09:52 PM)TheDreadPirate Wrote: ACLs are an additional layer of permissions that your average user doesn't need and overrides the standard linux permissions

Also, didn't notice that /media also has an ACL.

Code:
sudo setfacl -b -R /media
sudo chmod 755 /media
sudo chown -R tyr:media /media/library
sudo chmod -R 770 /media/library

Ok can you explain what we just did here? Were the ACLs screwing this up? Did I put them there trying to fix it earlier?

This does appear to have worked. I just want to know exactly what we did. What do the 755 and the 770 denote?

RE: Media Library won't add - theguymadmax - 2025-02-23

You can read his guide for more details: https://forum.jellyfin.org/t-mounting-local-storage-in-linux-linux-permissions-primer