Archived My old reliable Windows Plex server is now an old reliable Linux Plex server (Linux)
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Archived My old reliable Windows Plex server is now an old reliable Linux Plex server (Linux)
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[–] GodofGrunts 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
Might I recommend using Antergos instead of Manjaro?
Antegros is basically Arch with an installer (and a few extra packages they maintain), but Manjaro does a bunch of things on it's own (patches etc) and isn't as quick about it as the Arch devs are.
[–] ChillyHellion [S] 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago (edited ago)
I guess when Linux mounts a NTFS drive it assigns the drive an owner and a group, because it can't really interact with permissions on an NTFS drive. In my case the owner and group were assigned to root, so I had to set "uid" and "gid" to "1000" (me) in order to have myself set as the owner of the drive at mount. So it's not really a permissions issue so much as a drive ownership issue, since Linux can't interact with permissions on NTFS drives. In your install you might have set your "uid" and "gid" values when you edited fstab, which is what I did with the GUI (gnome-disks). If you do run into issues with your new install, just remember to take a look at your fstab and see who owns the drive at mount. You may need to change it to your own uid and gid if you want to be able to read/write files on the drive.
Edit: I think this is the guide I followed: http://askubuntu.com/questions/113733/how-do-i-correctly-mount-a-ntfs-partition-in-etc-fstab