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.

    • @RVAtomOPEnglish
      1•14 hours ago

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

      • @[email protected]English
        1•11 hours ago

        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