How to mount a volume to Plex Addon container? (Docker question?)

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This is potentially a really basic question about docker, but I’m just in the process of migrating everything over to Hassio (all going very well, for the most part) and part of that is spinning up the Plex addon.

My host machine is a custom build (ex-gaming PC that I no longer use) - it’s got an i5 4690K, 16GB RAM, 250GB Samsung SSD (primary boot drive) and 2x WD 2TB Hard drives. The host OS is Ubuntu desktop, although it pretty much just runs headless (I like having the desktop if I ever need it.)

I’ve recently enabled the Plex addon, and have the basic config done. However, it only sees the main boot drive (250GB SSD) whereas all the media is actually distributed across the two hard drives.

How do I get them mounted to the docker container? I have Portainer running, if that helps configure it.

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Don’t use the add-on. Run Plex container using portainer

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Thanks but I’m not sure I understand. So if I install Plex via Portainer the additional 2 hard drives will get mounted as volumes automatically? I would have thought it would depend on the configuration in Portainer, but also the host?

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No, but you have control over the mount points and can mount it yourself.

in Portainer, you can add whatever bind mounts you like. Your host is running Ubuntu, I’m not sure what the problem is. YOU have control of everything but hassio.

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Any who visits this thread for future reference, here are some resources I used to get this running.

https://4sysops.com/archives/introduction-to-docker-bind-mounts-and-volumes
https://hub.docker.com/r/plexinc/pms-docker/

Basic steps were to:

  1. Make sure the volumes are mounted on the host. Mine are HFS formatted, so need to follow the instructions found on Stack Overflow to mount them
  2. Remove the hassio plex addon
  3. Open portainer
  4. Create a new container using the official plex image referenced above
  5. In the ‘volumes’ section, add an additional volume per hard drive you want to mount. Select ‘bind’ as the option and map the paths in the host and container
  6. Configure the network (mine is on the host network).
  7. Start the container
  8. Voila - Plex running with all media present
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I have some problems with Plex in docker. I had a running container but all my media stuff are on my nas.

So i added and mounted the disks with fstab. But then when i create the new container with the path so my nas i get problems.

  1. DLNA crash of plex when starting
  2. When going to ip:32400 it starts but i always finds à server and when its running i got 2 servers. One is locked. Then i delete one of the servers in the so i have one left. When i add media folder in the gui and even if i can see that media is in the folder it dont find it.

I have tried official docker and linuxserver docker. I have tried and tried but always the same.

What the heck am i doing wrong!

Please help.

Me to has Portrainer.