Plex vs media on remote NFS volume (solved)

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Hi @gmoyle,

There is also a few hints to gather from an older post in this forum:

Allow rockons to mount NFS

The simple solution is to mount an nfsshare in the shared directory on RockStor and not in the container. For example: Plex have /media as it’s “data-storage” - then ssh to the RockStor-server, cd to /media and run “mount -t nfs ‘nfs-export’ /media” and it should pop up in the container.

Combined with @ArmyHill01’s recommendation, I would suggest something akin to the following:

1. From Rockstor’s webUI, create a share to serve as mounting point of your remote NFS export.
2. If needed, go to the share’s detail page, and then to the Access control tab. There you can change the ownership and permissions to make sure that it is compatible with the ownership and permissions of your remote NFS export (as recommended by @ArmyHill01 above). See below image for an illustration of which tab I’m talking about:

3. From the command line, mount your remote NFS export to the newly-created share on Rockstor. The command should be similar to the one described in the forum post I linked above, and be along the lines of mount -t nfs <remote-NFS-export> /mnt2/<share-name>.

4. You then only need to add the share to your rock-on(s) of choice, using the Add storage feature. Note that we have a detailed description of this process in the process of being published to our docs, but in the meantime, you can follow the post below (it concerned the NZBGet rock-on, but works with most rock-ons).

NZBGet, setup map for downloaded files

Hi @svberloo, If I understand correctly, you have installed the NZBGet Rock-on? If yes, you can simply ‘add a volume’ to the Rock-on: in the Rockstor web-UI, turn off NZBGet Rock-on click on the wrench icon to edit the Rock-on configuration Add the volume you want to use (it needs to be created first) and submit the changes. I assume this specific Rock-on supports this feature but I don’t use it myself so I don’t know. Turn back the NZBGet Rock-on to restart it This newly-added volume should…

I believe it should be at least a good starting point. I haven’t mounted an NFS share manually in a little while but as far as I remember that should do it :-P.

Let us know how it goes!