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Beginners guide to keeping your Plex metadata on a separate Dataset.

I actually thought this was very well put together and I think I am actually the target audience for a guide written in this style. There were a couple of errors that caught me out though...

There are a couple of times you've put "user" instead of "usr" in the path and below could be corrected because the "Jail" command is wrong, even though it can be quite easily extrapolated from the "Plugins" command.

Plugins - ls -al "/mnt/$TANK/iocage/jails/$PLUGIN[/B]/root/Plex Media Server"

Jail - /mnt/$TANK/iocage/jails/$JAIL/root/user/local/plexdata/Plex Media Server

Otherwise very useful and it worked! Thanks!
Useful reiteration of how to separate configs from jails.
While most in this guide is in fact correct, It seems like a rather complicated way of doing something very simple.

Writhing a complete guide for something that can be as short as 3-7 commands on the CLI.

It also doesn't deliver when it comes to the main goal, as stated in the intro:
Reinstall-ability

If it is actually aimed at novices, which it seems, it seems a requirement to instruct them how to apply said dataset to a reinstall.

All things considered:
- For absolute novices one of the automated scripts (Danb35, JailMan etc.) seems preferable (faster, less error prone)
- For slightly less-novice users, Pentaflakes guides are perfectly fine and a way faster read
- For more experienced users its WAY to verbose.

Ergo: while isn't wrong... It looks like a solution looking for a target audience.
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CompuGlobalHyperMegaNet
Thanks for the feedback. This comment section is really limited though, so I'll contact you via PMs / Conversation.
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