ubuntu plex media server directory filling

Create a folder for your Plex server, a config folder for your configuration, a temp folder for transcoding, and a symlink to the location of your media, in my case a mounted NAS volume:.I opted for the host mode as I can just use my host network to expose Plex server to my LAN. I like to install software in Docker containers and use Docker Compose to manage them, and Plex offers official docker image.

It is both annoying to install players that can correctly play them across multiple devices and sync media across them, so I decide to install a Plex Media Server, an awesome and largely free media streaming server. While streaming is pervasive now (and I use the word “pervasive” as I hate paying for many subscriptions just to access a few, and sometimes single content), I still have some media files lying around, mostly in lossless format. As I previously mentioned in my Pi-Hole and Home Assistant project, I have an Intel NUC running Ubuntu server in my network closet, I’d like to see what else I can do with it as even a several-year old NUC is too powerful for DNS sinkhole and IoT automation only.

Ubuntu plex media server directory filling