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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[–] ug02x 4 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Are you running Jellyfin in a Docker container?

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

Great question, no I am running Jellyfin version 10.10.3 in Linux Mint 21.3.

[–] ug02x 3 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

Then I think potentiallynotfelix is on the correct path. Apologies if I'm diving in too basic for you. Just to check whether you have it mounted or not if you open a terminal and cd to your media folder cd /media/RVAtom then ls -l it should list what is there. If it has been mounted before you should see SSD among the items.

If it is among the items to check if it is mounted from the ablve point you should be able to cd SSD and then ls -l again and see your contents if everything should be good to go.

As an aside, since this is a new drive do you know what type or partition, if any, exists on your SSD? You can see this in the disks app I believe.

Edit: attempting to properly wrap command snippets

[–] [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.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago

can you post the output of ls -l