u/Low_Peach_849

Hi all! I'm setting up Jellyfin for the first time after previously running a Plex server (the Plex hardware has since died lmao but it was a great proof of concept). I'm running into the same issue I had with Plex, where Linux has that weird issue about file/folder permissions.

Looking it up, I'm seeing a lot of into about Jellyfin making a user, then having to give that user permissions to the media folder. A Jellyfin user is not being created when I install. I am trying to run Jellyfin under the "docker" user I have created so I'm not running as root.

I am installing with the "add from example" on openmediavault.

It creates a compose file that looks like this (timezone removed for privacy, full filepath removed because idk what info that name gives about my drives lmao)

---
# https://hub.docker.com/r/linuxserver/jellyfin
# https://jellyfin.org/docs/
services:
  jellyfin:
    image: lscr.io/linuxserver/jellyfin:latest
    container_name: jellyfin
    environment:
      - PUID=1001
      - PGID=100
      - TZ=XXXXX/XXXXX
#      - JELLYFIN_PublishedServerUrl=192.168.0.5 #optional
    volumes:
      - /Appdata/jellyfin/library:/config
      - /srv/dev-disk-by-uuid-00000000/Media/jellyfin/tvseries:/data/tvshows
      - /srv/dev-disk-by-uuid-00000000/Media/jellyfin/movies:/data/movies
    ports:
      - 8096:8096
      - 8920:8920 #optional
      - 7359:7359/udp #optional
      - 1900:1900/udp #optional
    restart: unless-stopped

Trying to add folders to media libraries, I keep getting the "the path could not be found" error. I've tried the options I can find online, but nothing has helped. Any additional help would be incredible.

I've been messing around with NAS setups for a while now, first using an old PC i had laying around and now with a Pi 5 using the Radxa Penta SATA HAT. On two occasions now, once on the old PC and once on the Pi, I've accidentally killed a hard disk drive while trying to format it. By kill I mean it no longer spins up and doesn't appear in fdisk or lsblk.

On the first occasion I was formatting with OpenMediaVault, on the second I was formatting via Pi Lite OS (SSH'd in from my regular PC) before installing OMV. On both occasions I was following step-by-step instructions from trusted online tutorials.

The first one was a USB external HDD that was not new, so I figured it was a fluke that it happened to die when I was trying to use it again. The second one was a brand new NAS HDD from a trusted retailer, so now I'm wondering if there's something I'm doing incredibly wrong that's causing me to kill drives. Is there a common cause of this issue happening? Is there something I should look out for in future to avoid doing this again?

I'm starting a Cert III in IT in a couple months, and I'd like to get a headstart on the basics if I can. I'm fairly comfortable with hardware stuff, disassembling/assembling computers, I'm comfortable with Linux, and NAS hardware/software, but I haven't done a whole lot in terms of coding, some basic HTML and CSS but that's it. Are there any particular coding languages or other topics I should look into before the course starts?