Hello, i am very new to truenas. I just got it up and running today. I have been running a Plex server on ubuntu for a while now and have gotten pretty comfortable getting things to work there when an issue pops up. But im moving everything over to a new system with truenas on it and i am honestly just stumped at how i can put all of my movies and tv shows onto the pool i created. I have plugged in an external hard drive with the videod on it but i dont know how i would access the external drive and import all of the videos into the pool. Sorry if this is a stupid question i am just having a hard time finding an answer online. Thanks for your help!
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How to add Files to a pool for plex
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I thought the same thing but i cant see the disk in the drop down menu when i have to select which disk to import
Ah crap i just realized that my external drive is setup with ext4 filesystem and that is not supported by the import tool. Ill have to wait til i can shut down my ubuntu server and plug the drives directly into the truenas server. Thanks for the quick replies!
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Why don't you transfer the files over the network?
Im still to much of noob haha. Im not good with setting up smb or ftp (or a lot of other network stuff) so i honestly have been walking around problems that could easily be solved by using a network. ive been getting a lot more comfortable recently. Setting up truenas caused some things to click about networking but theres still just so much i dont understand that a lot of things scare me to mess with because how things have gone in the past sometimes haha.
