When attempting to add a root folder to sonarr I'm getting the following error.

Unable to add root folder

Folder '/tv/' is not writable by user 'abc'

This is on a fresh linux ubuntu install. The only place I deviated in the install defaults is I set up my media to be in "/media/username/15a8f489-192a-42bd-b1ae-662a9956ee611/server" with the string of characters being the ID for a HDD that is installed in the computer ( instead of the default /srv ). The rest of the linux build to include opt/yams is on a ssd.

I'm doing my best to learn linux but having a very hard time finding out what the issue here is. Any help or suggestions would be appreciated, thank you!

Hey!

Make sure the user you are using in YAMS has permissions to write on the destination device:

sudo chown -R $USER:$USER /media/username/15a8f489-192a-42bd-b1ae-662a9956ee611/server

I tried that and still get the same error. Are there any specific tricks to getting YAMS to store the media files on a different drive than it boots from? This is a fresh install so I'm not against formatting both drives and redoing the installs if there was something I missed.

You don't need to format. Can your user write on your media folder?

Try running this

touch test /the/location/for/your/media/directory

Run it as the user you selected when installing YAMS (not root) and do not use sudo.

Touch test came back good, I tried with both the mounting address as well as the partition address (dev/sda2).

Run this and send the output:

id the-user-that-runs-yams

Also, send the contents of your .env file. It's located in /your/install/location/.env (it's a hidden file). Make sure you remove your VPN credentials before sending the file here!

Output: uid=1000(username) gid=1000(username) groups=1000(username)

Contents:

Base configuration

PUID=1000
PGID=1000
MEDIA_DIRECTORY=/media/username/15a8f489-192a-42bd-b1ae-662a9956ee61/server
INSTALL_DIRECTORY=/opt/yams
MEDIA_SERVICE=jellyfin

VPN configuration

VPN_ENABLED=y
VPN_SERVICE=nordvpn
VPN_USER=user
VPN_PASSWORD=pass

The media directory is a folder on a 8 TB HDD while the rest of the install is on a separate SSD.

Hmmm... Everything looks fine... Are you 100% sure your user has permissions to write on /media/username/15a8f489-192a-42bd-b1ae-662a9956ee61/server? Because that's the UID and GID being used by YAMS.

Also, another question: is the drive formatted to ExFAT by any chance? I've seen issues with ExFAT before

Not completely sure what the issue was but I wiped everything and reinstalled and it works fine now. If I had to guess my mount path for the drive was probably wrong. Thank you!

Hello.

I'm having this same issue. I have a mounted network drive, /mnt/unraid/ being used as my media folder. I've verified my user (also the user I referenced in setup) and it has read/write permissions. I created a txt file and successfully sent it to the network folder.

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks.