Permissions issue: cannot start jellyfin.service after changing JELLYFIN_DATA_DIR

[TheDreadPirate]

This is very convoluted.

Jellyfin metadata should be on a local disk, preferably a SSD but a HDD is ok. The database should be on a local SSD. IMO, to get the result you want it may be better to have Jellyfin save all your images and trickplays with the media (there is a setting when setting up libraries to do this).

You would need to chown all of Jellyfin's binary directories to run as your user. But, IMO, saving your images and trickplays would cut down on most of the data usage when using the standard data directory.

Code:

sudo chown -R micro /usr/bin/jellyfin /var/cache/jellyfin /usr/share/jellyfin /etc/jellyfin