How do I give Jellyfin permanent access to an external drive?

[charger8232@lemmy.ml]

[ocean@lemmy.selfhostcat.com]

I bet it’s because it’s encrypted. Idk if there’s a fix to that. I had a lot of trouble making local servers auto unlock when using LUKS.

[wildbus8979@sh.itjust.works]

[scholars_mate@lemmy.world]

What filesystem are you using on the external drive? If it is NTFS or FAT, they won't store permissions on the filesystem, which would explain why the owner/group changes are not persistent. To fix that, you can set the uid/gid on mount in your fstab.

/dev/mapper/YOUR_DRIVE /path/to/mnt <fstype> rw,uid=<jellyfin_uid>,gid=<jellyfin_gid>,dmask=0002,fmask=0113

[charger8232@lemmy.ml]

[mierdabird@lemmy.dbzer0.com]

Thanks for editing in the solution!

[catloaf@lemm.ee]

What changes were made, exactly? Not everyone has a desktop environment on their server.