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General help getting Jellyfin libraries setup - Creachy - 2024-05-21
Hi there!
I've had a Roku for the last few years that I'll plug my external hard drive in to and run Roku media player to play my files. Recently, I've encountered more and more errors in having my media play correctly and surmised that setting up a home media server is a good way to solve my issues. I just so happen to have an old 2013 laptop laying around (i5-4500m, 8gb of DDR3, 750Gb HHD) that would be perfect. I managed to get Ubuntu Server up and running (first time Linux user) and was able to get Jellyfin up and running on said server. I followed the guide on the Jellyfin website and installed it via the automatic repository, allowed the firewall, logged in to the Jellyfin server, and voila! I was in! It felt incredible to be able to get that far!
I have now spent the last 24 hours trying to add a media library and keep getting stuck. I can't for the life of me find my drive when I go to add it to the library. It has been an incredibly humbling experience lol. I have looked up my issue and tried following guides but keep getting stuck. ANY help would be greatly appreciated.
RE: General help getting Jellyfin libraries setup - TheDreadPirate - 2024-05-21
Use the command "sudo fdisk -l" to list out all the connected disks. In that list, find the device that corresponds to your external hard drive and then we can proceed from there.
The output will look something like this. One for each hard drive.
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Disk /dev/sdb: 931.51 GiB, 1000203804160 bytes, 1953523055 sectors
Disk model: WDC WD1001FALS-0
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disklabel type: gpt
Disk identifier: DF69ABDA-FC64-4CC6-9CC6-2D799FB8F4E5
Device Start End Sectors Size Type
/dev/sdb1 2048 1953521663 1953519616 931.5G Linux filesystemRE: General help getting Jellyfin libraries setup - Creachy - 2024-05-21
Hi Dread, thanks for the reply. When I ran that, I got:
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Disk /dev/sda: 698.64 GiB, 750156374016 bytes, 1465149168 sectors
Disk model: HGST HTS541075A9
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 4096 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 4096 bytes / 4096 bytes
Disklabel type: gpt
Disk identifier: 566D0C85-4339-493F-9795-513FB55C51EA
Device Start End Sectors Size Type
/dev/sda1 2048 2203647 2201600 1G EFI System
/dev/sda2 2203648 1465145343 1462941696 697.6G Linux filesystem
Disk /dev/loop8: 137.29 MiB, 143962112 bytes, 281176 sectors
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk /dev/sdc: 3.64 TiB, 4000787030016 bytes, 7814037168 sectors
Disk model: EXTERNAL_USB
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 4096 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 4096 bytes / 4096 bytes
Disklabel type: gpt
Disk identifier: C344ACC7-95D5-4E10-9CEC-271E2C9230DA
Device Start End Sectors Size Type
/dev/sdc1 34 262177 262144 128M Microsoft reserved
/dev/sdc2 264192 7814035455 7813771264 3.6T Microsoft basic dataalso, pardon the *incredibly* stupid question, but is there a better way to format code replies? I hit the code button and pasted what I copied and it came out like this
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Disk /dev/sda: 698.64 GiB, 750156374016 bytes, 1465149168 sectors Disk model: HGST HTS541075A9 Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 4096 bytes I/O size (minimum/optimal): 4096 bytes / 4096 bytes Disklabel type: gpt Disk identifier: 566D0C85-4339-493F-9795-513FB55C51EA Device Start End Sectors Size Type /dev/sda1 2048 2203647 2201600 1G EFI System /dev/sda2 2203648 1465145343 1462941696 697.6G Linux filesystem Disk /dev/loop8: 137.29 MiB, 143962112 bytes, 281176 sectors Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes Disk /dev/sdc: 3.64 TiB, 4000787030016 bytes, 7814037168 sectors Disk model: EXTERNAL_USB Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 4096 bytes I/O size (minimum/optimal): 4096 bytes / 4096 bytes Disklabel type: gpt Disk identifier: C344ACC7-95D5-4E10-9CEC-271E2C9230DA Device Start End Sectors Size Type /dev/sdc1 34 262177 262144 128M Microsoft reserved /dev/sdc2 264192 7814035455 7813771264 3.6T Microsoft basic dataRE: General help getting Jellyfin libraries setup - TheDreadPirate - 2024-05-21
Do the device we want is /dev/sdc2
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sudo cat /proc/mounts | grep sdcWhat is the output.
For code blocks, for one liners just put the code open and close before and after. For multi-line code blocks the open and close should be above and below the code block itself.
RE: General help getting Jellyfin libraries setup - Creachy - 2024-05-21
Output is:
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/dev/sdc2 /media/chris/mediadrive ntfs3 rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime,uid=1000,gid=1000,iocharset=utf8 0 0Perfect, thank you for the tip
I was also hitting Ctrl+Shift+C instead of just right clicking the highlighted code, right clicking fixed my formatting