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Booshotti

Member

Registered: 2017-03-06

Posts: 1

Plex Media Server

Hello,

I have a Mini PC which has 32GB MMC memory, When Plex is trying to transcode it does not have enough hard drive space to do it. My idea is to run Plex-Media-Server on an External Hard Drive that has been partitioned to say 8GB or less.

Doing this I will get around the errors that are being caused due to low storage space but in Arch Linux I am not too sure how I would do this? At the minute I am installing using yaourt package manager.
If anyone has any advice on how I could move the binaries and dependencies to another drive or... Even better, Install directly to that drive that would be great!

Thanks

Slithery

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From: Norfolk, UK

Registered: 2013-12-01

Posts: 5,776

Re: Plex Media Server

Installing Plex to a different location won't help with your issue (and is also incredibly convoluted).

By default Plex store the transcodes in /tmp, which is limited to half the amount of RAM you have. To change this behaviour edit the PLEX_MEDIA_SERVER_TMPDIR variable in the /etc/conf.d/plexmediaserver configuration file.

PS - Yaourt is not a package manager, it's an AUR helper that shouldn't be used unless you know exactly what it's doing.

Last edited by Slithery (2017-03-06 20:44:33)

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