Permissions on local storage

[malifaux]

Finally started to setup Jellyfin. Tried it a while back in Docker but didn't take it further. However, when I realised the pi4 could run it with CasaOS, I followed a guide and got it working. Now moved to a PC as the pi4 was struggling sometimes.

New to Linux and just stuck with permissions.

The current setup is run on a PC running Ubuntu Server, with CasaOS. CasaOS is using the Jellyfin plugin. I setup the two external USB and they all work fine and I can delete from them with Jellyfin and I've not set any permissions. However, as they are getting full I've now used the internal, spare HDD that is in the PC as well. But, whenever I'm in Jellyfin and try to delete media, from within Jellyfin logged in as the Jellyfin admin, I get:

There was an error deleting the item from the server. Please check that Jellyfin has write access to the media folder and try again.

I'm not sure where to set these permissions as I've not had to do that before. I know I can go onto CasaOS and just delete it from there, but I want the Jellyfin admin to be able to delete from within Jellyfin as it can do with the other external drives.

[tepsys]

So you have a Jellyfin server with 2 disks attached via usb, and a third disk attached internally. With the two usb disks you are able to manage files, but the internal disk is giving permission errors.

You can see what permissions are set for your usb disks with

Code:

ls -ld /path/to/your/usb/disk

and then compare ownership/permissions with the internal disk 

Code:

ls -ld /path/to/your/internal/disk

If the user/group/permissions are different, you'll want to change them to match

Code:

chown user:group /path/to/your/internal/disk

[malifaux]

Finally started to setup Jellyfin. Tried it a while back in Docker but didn't take it further. However, when I realised the pi4 could run it with CasaOS, I followed a guide and got it working. Now moved to a PC as the pi4 was struggling sometimes.

New to Linux and just stuck with permissions.

The current setup is run on a PC running Ubuntu Server, with CasaOS. CasaOS is using the Jellyfin plugin. I setup the two external USB and they all work fine and I can delete from them with Jellyfin and I've not set any permissions. However, as they are getting full I've now used the internal, spare HDD that is in the PC as well. But, whenever I'm in Jellyfin and try to delete media, from within Jellyfin logged in as the Jellyfin admin, I get:

There was an error deleting the item from the server. Please check that Jellyfin has write access to the media folder and try again.

I'm not sure where to set these permissions as I've not had to do that before. I know I can go onto CasaOS and just delete it from there, but I want the Jellyfin admin to be able to delete from within Jellyfin as it can do with the other external drives.

That was it thanks. Spent the evening working out how to do what you've said now done, finally.