

You’ll want to copy the contents of this directory to your desired path if you already have an existing database. The default database path for Plex on Ubuntu is this /var/lib/plexmediaserver/Library/Application Support/ So instead I’m going to go over creating a symbolic link. In the past I’ve edited the Plex config file to reference the new path but after updating my Plex server to a new version I found out that this was a mistake as that file gets reverted to the default path. Now the Plex server is not running and we can make changes.

**You’ll be prompted for your password, enter that and hit enter** To start open a Terminal (Ctl-Alt-T) and enter in the following: sudo service plexmediaserver stop Naturally storing the Plex database on the media drives (that get backed up to each other too) makes sense. In here I intend to simply explain how to change the Plex database path in Ubuntu.įor a bit of background my Plex database is over 130GB in size ( last I checked) and my boot drive is 80GB while my media drives are 3TB.
