Best Practices: MNT Ownership

[beboprocky]

I'm using MergerFS to mount and pool 5 drives that store a bunch of Plex media. I use the Linuxserver.io Plex docker image and map the PUID and PGID to 1000. Currently I just do a sudo chown 1000:1000 -R /mnt/pool but I'm curious if there's a better practice. Do people put a PUID/PGID mapping in the fstab or anything? Or am I just overthinking this.

[trapexit]

You are likely overthinking things. I will generally create a uid for a type of media or just use nobody. Something other than myself so I don't accidentally change things. But if you are the sole person on the system... it doesn't much matter.

Make the root of your media directory mode 1777 and owned by root like /tmp and run the containers as whatever uid is best for you.