Looking at a USB stick within disk management there is “unallocated space” on the drive. To fix:

Open Command prompt and type DISKPART > A new prompted will open.

Run the following commands (Windows :() to reclaim the unallocated space:

list disk

Disk ### Status Size Free Dyn Gpt
——– ————- ——- ——- — —
Disk 0 Online 298 GB 0 B
Disk 1 Online 7509 MB 6619 MB

select disk 1

clean

You should see the drive as not formatted within Disk Management at this stage.

create partition primary

exit

Open terminal within Ubuntu and type the following to find out where the harddrive to be formatted is located:

 
sudo fdisk -l 

Once located run the dd command with blocksize of 16M (for speed):

 
dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda2 bs=16M 

That’s it. 2TB drive took roughly 6 hours.

Machine spec – 2.0GHz dual core, 2GB RAM.

Run the command:

postsuper -d ALL

Shutdown mysql:

/etc/init.d/mysql stop

Change into database directory:

cd /var/lib/mysql/dbname

Check and repair MYI tables:

myisamchk -o -r *.MYI

-o – safe recover

-r – recover

Simply download the latest version of PMS and dpkg will take care of the rest:

Download PMS in a temp folder:

http://plex.tv/downloads

wget http://downloads.plex.tv/plex-media-server/0.9.11.16.958-80f1748/plexmediaserver_0.9.11.16.958-80f1748_i386.deb

Run dpkg which will take care of overwriting your current version of plex retaining all settings:

dpkg -i plexmediaserver_0.9.11.16.958-80f1748_i386.deb

Done!