Comment on How do I give Jellyfin permanent access to an external drive?
Scholars_Mate@lemmy.world [bot] 2 weeks ago
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
marathon@thelemmy.club 1 week ago
This is what my issue was to — unfortunately, I didn’t see this post before removing Jellyfin server. Couldn’t find this in the official help docs - so someone might want to add this to the help and quick-start guides.