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    Jellyfin Forum Off Topic Self-hosting & Homelabs Beginning for (dumber than) dummies

     
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    NurseWizzle
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    2025-02-12, 04:06 PM (This post was last modified: 2025-02-12, 04:06 PM by NurseWizzle.)
    I currently have Jellyfin running on my Synology thanks to the Dr Frankenstein guides. That is pretty easy, he has it all laid out what to do step-by-step.

    However, I have a Lenovo m920q laying around that I think would be better suited, and use the Synology just as a NAS. I'm pretty handy at copy/paste, so I got Docker installed on a fresh new Ubuntu installation. I'm already stuck, however, on where to proceed from here.

    For instance, on this page, I've gotten down to step 2 done successfully, but I'm stuck on step 3, create persistent storage for configuration and cache data:

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    mkdir /path/to/config
    mkdir /path/to/cache

    I don't know what to do next. I understand this is like, the most basic of basic and I'm probably literally the only person on this forum that doesn't understand this, but how to I know what to set it to? I think I have enough understanding to know that I don't literally don't want it to be /path/to/config, rather, I should put the actual path. Is this something I would learn in some ubuntu documentation, or Linux, or Docker?
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    2025-02-12, 05:21 PM (This post was last modified: 2025-02-12, 05:21 PM by TheDreadPirate.)
    The path you set is 100% arbitrary. Create the directories for /config and /cache anywhere and provide that path in the container's config. Obviously, it needs to be somewhere that you have access to.
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