I figured swap would only be used if I ran out of available memory. I’m not an expert at all, so I could be totally wrong about that.

Is it possible that the container is allocating the space preemptively but not actively using it? So proxmox would see it as being used, but plex is simply reserving it. I think I’ve seen that occur on other containers like home assistant (but this is a VM not LXC). Proxmox says it’s using almost all the memory available to it, but going into home assistant itself says it’s only using a fraction of that amount.

How is it not suitable for larger homes?

This is the best way. A raspberry pi is way more suited to managing the entire network of devices than turning a relay on and off.

No idea. I’m new to proxmox and Linux by about 2 weeks, so I’m mainly just trying to learn. I figured since the tteck script sets up a LXC, it would be possible, but I can’t really find any record of someone else doing it.

No, I have an extra USB drive to test it out.

That was my favorite sub, and I’m really sad it didn’t take off on lemmy. I noticed it was back up on Reddit a few weeks ago and I thought about messaging you to ask if you put it back or reddit gave it to someone else. Fuck reddit.

I just checked and the Plex container options say “unprivileged container: no”

So that seems to be it. I’ve only been trying with proxmox for a few days so all I’ve read about this is “don’t do it, it’s less secure”. I don’t really understand much about it yet.

But you helped me realize why that’s happening, thank you.

The code is formatted pretty poorly on my mobile app, so here are some screenshots of the console:

Plex LXC

Fresh LXC

Huh, I guess I’ll just embrace it then! Thanks for the input

Alright, I’ll check those out too. I have been assuming those would be more complicated to set up as a newbie

Do you think using TrueNAS or OMV is as easy as Samba? Or maybe there are some benefits that justify a little bit more challenging solution?

Would you recommend a VM or LXC to pass the drive through to/install samba?

This is helpful, thank you. I’ll have to look into the different ways to accomplish this. It would feel weird to access a drive over my network when it’s just from another container. Maybe it’s not as weird as I think it is?

Your comment sounds really helpful, but I’m going to have to come back and read it when I understand things more lol

Funny, I also have a mini-PC and a 4TB USB drive. That’s helpful though. Is it possible to mount the entire drive to two different containers? Or does it have to be separate “chunks” of it?

For example, I want a container for Plex and another container for Samba to share the drive on my network. Both would be installed on the internal SSD. Can I set it up so both containers have direct access to the entire external drive at the same time?

Thanks. That’s what I was thinking but I wasn’t sure if it was easier to have Plex and samba in the same container since I want both to directly access the hard drive.

That’s really helpful thanks. I should be able to Google around and figure out how to install samba. Would you recommend installing samba directly on the host or spinning up a dedicated VM or LXC to install there?

I’m planning on running Plex in a LXC. Maybe install Samba on that container alongside Plex?

I just wanted to get suggestions on how to start out with something simple, specifically making that USB hard drive available on my network + the LXC for Plex.

I have a good idea how to do the other things I mentioned, but the network storage aspect is challenging. I think it’s because there are probably many ways to accomplish this, so I don’t know how to choose what’s best as a beginner. Lots of new terminology and a poor understanding on how things work together.

I want to completely switch over to proxmox and ditch windows on the server. Sorry if that wasn’t clear in the post.

I just want to replicate the functionality but proxmox (and Linux in general) is very new to me.

Yeah your solution would be the best if I didn’t have fan wiring going to the wall. I wouldn’t want to make the wall switch totally obsolete.

I looked at the Treatlife but apparently they changed the chipset and it’s no longer flashable :/