Change Plex Data Location

Are you running a Plex server and do you want to store the Plex data in a different location? This article will explain how to change this location.

Setup

Plex can take up quite some space with storing their metadata, to mitigate this we can change the location of Plex’s data to a mount point. To do this stop Plex by running systemctl stop plexmediaserver. Move the Plex data to your mount point as shown below (do not forget to adjust it to your needs). In case you want to be safe, you can back up the folder first.

mv /var/lib/plexmediaserver/* /mnt/data

Next, create a link from the old location to the mount point using:

ln -s /mnt/data/* /var/lib/plexmediaserver/

Change the rights to the Plex user:

chown -R plex:plex /var/lib/plexmediaserver/*

Now start the Plex server by running systemctl start plexmediaserver.

Sources

• How to move Plex metadata and index data to new drive/partition and/or directory location (smyl.es)