I have added an SSD to my computer that hosts Jellyfin where I want to have my Shows and Movies folders. When I go to add them to my library I get the following error:

The path could not be found. Please ensure the path is valid and try again.

So the path I had entered was /media/RVAtom/SSD. SSD is the name of the drive, and it was not offered as a choice by Jellyfin, I typed the SSD part myself.

I get the impression by reading some stuff that I either need to mount the drive at each reboot, or give jellyfin permission to read (or read and write?) that drive, but I am not sure how to go about that.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I have figured out that I was even further confused. When I went into the disks program to figure out what type of partition was on the drive I realized the drive isn't really at media/RVAtom/SSD it is at mnt/SSD. That makes a little more sense, as I was confused a couple of days ago that it seemed to be in media without me remembering.

Running ls -l on the correct drive gives: rvatom@rvatom-mint-PC:/mnt$ ls -l total 4 drwxr-x---+ 6 rvatom rvatom 4096 Dec 18 22:00 SSD

Under the disks tool I have gone into mount options and checked "mount at system startup". The drive type is Ext4 I believe. I'm going to try a few more reboots but it seems like Jellyfin is willing to look at this drive now. We may have success.

[–] ug02x 3 points 2 days ago

Excellent news! Hopefully this sends you smoothly on your Jellyfin jouney.