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Beginners guide to keeping your Plex metadata on a separate Dataset.

Western Digital Drives - The Preferred Drives of FreeNAS and TrueNAS CORE
Useful reiteration of how to separate configs from jails.
While most in this guide is in fact correct, It seems like a rather complicated way of doing something very simple.

Writhing a complete guide for something that can be as short as 3-7 commands on the CLI.

It also doesn't deliver when it comes to the main goal, as stated in the intro:
Reinstall-ability

If it is actually aimed at novices, which it seems, it seems a requirement to instruct them how to apply said dataset to a reinstall.

All things considered:
- For absolute novices one of the automated scripts (Danb35, JailMan etc.) seems preferable (faster, less error prone)
- For slightly less-novice users, Pentaflakes guides are perfectly fine and a way faster read
- For more experienced users its WAY to verbose.

Ergo: while isn't wrong... It looks like a solution looking for a target audience.
CompuGlobalHyperMegaNet
CompuGlobalHyperMegaNet
Thanks for the feedback. This comment section is really limited though, so I'll contact you via PMs / Conversation.
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