Multiple external hard drives on SparkBox

Posted by AxolotlArcana

Morning. I saw a post that answered a question i had regarding the use of external drives on SparkBox. I just wanted to know if it is possible to have more than one? I have my 3. Movies, Series and Anime/Animation are all on separate drives. is it possible to have that set up working with the media centre (I would be using it with Plex at the moment) Thanks

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Chris wrote:

Yes for Plex, although SparkBox does not yet have a first-class multiple-drive picker. Plex can index several libraries when each drive is mounted into its container; today the update-safe way is a small state/overrides/media.yml file. I've logged the request for proper multiple-storage-root support in the dashboard. I don't want to give you a blind mount example because the host paths and service name must match your setup. Reply with the exact mount path for each drive and whether you enabled the full Media Center or standalone Plex, and I'll write the exact override. One caveat: Plex-only existing libraries are straightforward, but Sonarr/Radarr downloads moved across separate filesystems cannot use hardlinks and may copy instead.

AxolotlArcana wrote:

I have Media Center and the Plex app as Plex was not in the Media Center. I am still reativly new to Linux, so I am not sure if this is correct: UUID=326E-902A /mnt/main-hdd exfat defaults,nofail,uid=1000,gid=1000,umask=022,x-systemd.device-timeout=10 0 0 UUID=B0DC37F5DC37B506 /mnt/sarepco ntfs-3g defaults,nofail,uid=1000,gid=1000,umask=022,x-systemd.device-timeout=10 0 0 UUID=C27C7FCE7C7FBC2B /mnt/yd-movies ntfs-3g defaults,nofail,uid=1000,gid=1000,umask=022,x-systemd.device-timeout=10 0 0 Is this hat you need? Does this mean Radarr/Sonarr will not go to the external drives but the main drive and then copy to the externals?

Chris wrote:

Those are the host mount points I needed, and the UID/GID options look compatible. They do not by themselves tell SparkBox which drive is Movies, Series, or Anime. Reply with which of /mnt/main-hdd, /mnt/sarepco, and /mnt/yd-movies owns each library, plus the exact folder name inside each. Radarr and Sonarr can import to those drives once the paths are mounted into their containers and selected as root folders. If downloads stay on the main drive while the final library is on another filesystem, the import is a copy: hardlinks cannot cross disks, and seeded torrent data remains until removed normally. I will use your mapping to give one update-safe override for Media Center plus standalone Plex.