PeppermintOS NAS+Plex Server

[Voodoo]

Install PeppermintOS:
1) If you are using UEFI, make sure the hard drive is set as a GPT instead of an MBR. Then create a 500MB partition at the very front of the drive and format it as EFI.
2) Create a SWAP partition at the end of the first drive. It is advised to be the same size as your RAM.
3) Then create a 30GB ext4 partition and mount it as / (aka root) at the front of the drive (either at the very beginning or the second partition if your first partition is your EFI partition)
4) Format the rest of the drive as your /home drive.

Make sure that your username is “plex” in order to make things easier with permissions later on.

After install, open up terminal and run the following:
sudo apt-get update
followed by
sudo apt-get upgrade

Now bond the network cards together as an “adaptive load balancing” using the gui

Firefox “Wildvine”.
1) In the address bar of your Firefox, paste and go to about:config
2) Search for media.gmp-widevinecdm. and “toggle” both media.gmp-widevinecdm.visible and media.gmp-widevinecdm.enabled are false. You double click the items to toggle them.
3) Close the browser and you are done.

Install OpenSSH Server:
This can be done using the Software Manager

Install Timeshift:
This can be done using the Software Manager
NOTE: When you set a location, make sure it has space for multiple backups. I create a 100GB XFS partition on one of my other hard drives and set it aside for Timeshift. I then set it to 2 monthly backups and 5 scheduled.

Linux Software Raid (Mdadm) and Samba
Mdadm – https://www.tecmint.com/create-raid0-in-linux/
Mounting and sharing with Samba – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cSi-NOlomLc&t=1522s (at 8:11 and 14:36)

NOTES for Mdadm and Samba:
sudo su
blkid | grep "/dev/md0" | tee -a /etc/fstab
nano /etc/fstab

# Raid0 using MDADM
UUID=5d7ea623-2329-476b-aab9-7baaaa5c7444 /srv/raid0 xfs noatime,rw 0 0

sudo mkdir /media/plex/ramdisk
sudo chmod 777 /media/plex/ramdisk
sudo mount -t tmpfs -o size=4G RamDisk /media/plex/ramdisk

mount | tail -n 1

sudo nano /etc/fstab

RamDisk  /media/plex/ramdisk  tmpfs  defaults,size=4G,x-gvfs-show  0  0

 # Raid0 using MDADM
UUID=5d7ea623-2329-476b-aab9-7baaaa5c7444 /media/plex/raid0 xfs noatime,rw,x-gvfs-show 0 0

blkid | grep "/dev/sdb" | tee -a /etc/fstab
blkid | grep "/dev/sdc" | tee -a /etc/fstab
blkid | grep "/dev/md0" | tee -a /etc/fstab

Network Share: (14:36) in the video above:
sudo apt-get install samba

cd /etc/samba

sudo nano smb.conf

     	[Share]	
     	  path = /srv/raid0/	
     	  force group = plex	
     	  force user = plex	
     	  browsable = yes	
     	  writeable = yes	
     	  guest ok = yes	

     	[Raid0]	
	  path = /media/plex/raid0/	
	  force group = plex	
	  force user = plex	
	  browsable = yes	
	  writeable = yes	
	  guest ok = yes	

	[Movies]	
	  path = /media/plex/6TB-HDD/Movies	
	  force group = plex	
	  force user = plex	
	  browsable = yes	
	  writeable = no	
	  guest ok = yes	

	[Movies3D]	
	  path = /media/plex/5TB-HDD/Movies3D	
	  force group = plex	
	  force user = plex	
	  browsable = yes	
	  writeable = no	
	  guest ok = yes	

	[TVShows]	
	  path = /media/plex/5TB-HDD/TVShows	
	  force group = plex	
	  force user = plex	
	  browsable = yes	
	  writeable = no	
	  guest ok = yes	

	[VideoShorts]	
	  path = /media/plex/5TB-HDD/VideoShorts	
	  force group = plex	
	  force user = plex	
	  browsable = yes	
	  writeable = no	
	  guest ok = yes

sudo chown -R plex:plex /srv
sudo chown -R plex:plex /media/plex
sudo systemctl restart smbd

Setup RamDisk for Plex Transcoding (I used 4GB)
https://www.linuxbabe.com/command-line/create-ramdisk-linux

Install Cockpit:

sudo apt-get install cockpit

Then head over to http://localhost:9090 to continue (localhost can be replaced with the pc name or IP)

Install Plex Server:

Install Conky:
http://vworld.us/forums/topic/conky-for-linux-mint-19-3/

Install Stacer:
http://vworld.us/forums/topic/stacer/

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