Rclone mounted but Plex can't see it

[golfboy]

Hello all!

I'm trying to set up Rclone from my seedbox and it's kinda difficult.

I have succesfully setup a drive to google drive and it's uploading automatically using crontab. However Plex isn't reading those files correctly and I dont have access to all my folders in Google drive. It's basically just the name that I called it when I setup the drive in rclone, but no folders inside.

Is it correctly mounted?
And why can't plex see the content and any subfolders inside the google drive?

[Animosity022]

What's your mount command? What version of rclone are you using?

[golfboy]

I'm using version 1.48.0

And I don't have a mount command. I dont have access to the root. Is this necessary?

[Animosity022]

I'm not following how you are setup. You don't need root for rclone as you just need fuse installed.

How is Plex accessing the files if you do not have a rclone mount?

[golfboy]

I did the rclone config part (this page https://rclone.org/drive/ only first code) so it's in the file explorer. The problem is that I can't see all the subfolders in it and plex can't see any of the content (those are in the subfolders).

I haven't used any mount command and when i try to use it I get the following error: "Mount: Only root can do that."

[Animosity022]

Can you share what command you are running specifically and the error?

[felix@gemini ~]$ id
uid=1000(felix) gid=1000(felix) groups=1000(felix),971(docker)
[felix@gemini ~]$ rclone mount gcrypt: /Test

Example mount of a non root user.

[golfboy]

Yh sure! I have the following things set up.

All words that are in italics have been changed.

The cache

[gcache]
type = cache
remote = gdrive:x
plex_url = https://app.plex.tv/web/app#
plex_username = My username
plex_password = My password
chunk_size = 16M
info_age = 2d
chunk_total_size = 20G

The drive

[gdrive]
type = drive
client_id = The client id
client_secret = The client secret
scope = drive
token = The token

Nano cronscript

#!/bin/bash
if pidof -o %PPID -x ".cronscript.sh"; then
exit 1
fi
bin/rclone copyto /home14/skyline/deluge/completed gdrive -v --min-age 15m
exit

Crontab -e

*/5 * * * * /home14/skyline/.cronscript.sh

This is everything I have set up. The crontab is working fine and is uploading everything to google drive. Here I'm manually replacing the files to the correct folders.

The problem is as follows:

There are no subfolders I can choose from (I place all the content to those folders) and I don't get any media when I select this. So I thought something went wrong with Rclone?

[Animosity022]

You need to mount a drive on rclone to see it as you have uploaded but without a mount on your local machine, you can't see it.

[golfboy]

I tried this command line, but it didn't work.

ExecStart=/home14/skyline/rclone mount -v --read-only --allow-other --gid 33 --umask 0027 --dir-cache-time 300h --poll-interval 5m gdrive:/mnt/Plex
mount: unrecognized option '--allow-other'
mount: only root can do that

Do you happen to know what I'm doing wrong or should do instead?

[Animosity022]

/home14/skyline/rclone mount -v --read-only --allow-other --gid 33 --umask 0027 --dir-cache-time 300h --poll-interval 5m gdrive:/mnt/Plex

You need a spot to mount it to so at the end of the command, you need to specify a folder to mount.

You only included a piece of the systemd so it's hard to tell if you are running as a user or as root.

What does:

/home14/skyline/rclone version

show?

[golfboy]

Rclone version shows me:

rclone version
rclone v1.48.0

• os/arch: linux/amd64
• go version: go1.12.6

and /home14/skyline/rclone version shows me:

/home14/skyline/rclone version
-bash: /home14/skyline/rclone: No such file or directory

By the way thanks a lot for your help trying to figure this out!

[Animosity022]

Can you share the whole .serivce file as that looks to be wrong as you are pointing to:

ExecStart=/home14/skyline/rclone

Which looks to be the wrong path for your rclone executable.

[golfboy]

hmm, you are right. I shouldn't add /home14/skyline in front of it.

rclone mount -v --read-only --allow-other --gid 33 --umask 0027 --dir-cache-time 300h --poll-interval 5m gdrive:/Plex

Usage:
rclone mount remote:path /path/to/mountpoint [flags]

Flags:
--allow-non-empty Allow mounting over a non-empty directory.
--allow-other Allow access to other users.
--allow-root Allow access to root user.
--attr-timeout duration Time for which file/directory attributes are cached. (default 1s)
--daemon Run mount as a daemon (background mode).
--daemon-timeout duration Time limit for rclone to respond to kernel (not supported by all OSes).
--debug-fuse Debug the FUSE internals - needs -v.
--default-permissions Makes kernel enforce access control based on the file mode.
--dir-cache-time duration Time to cache directory entries for. (default 5m0s)
--dir-perms FileMode Directory permissions (default 0777)
--file-perms FileMode File permissions (default 0666)
--fuse-flag stringArray Flags or arguments to be passed direct to libfuse/WinFsp. Repeat if required.
--gid uint32 Override the gid field set by the filesystem. (default 1111)
-h, --help help for mount
--max-read-ahead SizeSuffix The number of bytes that can be prefetched for sequential reads. (default 128k)
--no-checksum Don't compare checksums on up/download.
--no-modtime Don't read/write the modification time (can speed things up).
--no-seek Don't allow seeking in files.
-o, --option stringArray Option for libfuse/WinFsp. Repeat if required.
--poll-interval duration Time to wait between polling for changes. Must be smaller than dir-cache-time. Only on supported remotes. Set to 0 to disable. (default 1m0s)
--read-only Mount read-only.
--uid uint32 Override the uid field set by the filesystem. (default 1111)
--umask int Override the permission bits set by the filesystem.
--vfs-cache-max-age duration Max age of objects in the cache. (default 1h0m0s)
--vfs-cache-max-size SizeSuffix Max total size of objects in the cache. (default off)
--vfs-cache-mode CacheMode Cache mode off|minimal|writes|full (default off)
--vfs-cache-poll-interval duration Interval to poll the cache for stale objects. (default 1m0s)
--vfs-read-chunk-size SizeSuffix Read the source objects in chunks. (default 128M)
--vfs-read-chunk-size-limit SizeSuffix If greater than --vfs-read-chunk-size, double the chunk size after each chunk read, until the limit is reached. 'off' is unlimited. (default off)
--volname string Set the volume name (not supported by all OSes).
--write-back-cache Makes kernel buffer writes before sending them to rclone. Without this, writethrough caching is used.

Use "rclone [command] --help" for more information about a command.
Use "rclone help flags" for to see the global flags.
Use "rclone help backends" for a list of supported services.
Command mount needs 2 arguments minimum: you provided 1 non flag arguments: ["gdrive:/Plex"]

This is what I got. I should add somewhere another path I think?

[Animosity022]

rclone mount -v --read-only --allow-other --gid 33 --umask 0027 --dir-cache-time 300h --poll-interval 5m gdrive:/Plex

You need something to mount it to at the end of your command so you need to make a directory so it can mount to that.

[golfboy]

Great! This command is working perfectly!

rclone mount -v --read-only --allow-other --gid 33 --umask 0027 --dir-cache-time 300h --poll-interval 5m gdrive: /home14/skyline/gdrive

One more question:
I did use the command yesterday. Plex was seeing the subfolders in gdrive perfectly. However when I tried to watch a movie right now it's gone. I can't see any subfolders anymore and I'm back to the start.

Should I make a crontab code of this so it repeats the command line?

[darthShadow (Anagh Kumar Baranwal)]

You need to keep the command running to always see the files.

Your best bet would be a service for that but that isn't possible without root.

The other alternative is to start a tmux or screen session, run the command within it and then detach from it.

[golfboy]

I have no idea how to make a screen session or tmux, but wouldn't a cronscript work?

I kinda made one and it's mounted. It checks every 2 minutes if it mounted.
I have no idea if it will be unmounted once in a while untill the 2 minutes are over. But if you guys tell me that a tmux or screen session would be better then the cronscript then I will look into that!

[Animosity022]

You can just append "--daemon" at the end of your command and that will run the command in the background so if you log out, it won't exit.

[golfboy]

Thanks! Got the following code:

rclone mount -v --read-only --allow-other --gid 33 --umask 0027 --dir-cache-time 300h --poll-interval 5m --deamon --allow-non-empty gdrive: /home14/skyline/gdrive

Its working

[Animosity022]

I'd remove allow-non-emtpy as that's just a bad parameter and allows for overmounting/hiding things.

Any reason you are setting a poll interval rather than just using the default? I'd remove that.