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Trying to add an sshfs mounted location as a regular file system volume type in Cloudron

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  • M makemrproper

    Trying to add an sshfs mounted location as a regular filesystem volume type in Cloudron.

    I have a working SSHFS mount in /mnt/folder

    When trying to I am trying to add the /mnt/folder to Cloudron as a filesystem volume type, I am getting this error: hostPath must be a realpath without symlinks

    The reason I want to do this, is because Cloudron will not let me use an SSHFS volume as a data-volume for my (immich) Cloudron-app.

    debug:
    sshfs mount works perfectly
    permissions are lax, set to 777 on the mountpoint folder

    more background of why I want to do this here: https://forum.cloudron.io/topic/12239/storage-management-in-immich/46

    Thanks for any suggestions!

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    joseph
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    @makemrproper said in Trying to add an sshfs mounted location as a regular file system volume type in Cloudron:

    When trying to I am trying to add the /mnt/folder to Cloudron as a filesystem volume type, I am getting this error: hostPath must be a realpath without symlinks

    Just tested this and this works fine here. Is /mnt/folder a symlink? I have a fstab line to mount a sshfs into /mnt/folder . And then I just added Filesystem mount type in Volumes view.

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      msbt
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      wrote last edited by msbt
      #11

      Also getting that message, but on a different use-case. I'm trying to add a (sftp) rclone mount to Cloudron. Mounting and browsing works fine, but when trying to add it as a volume, it says hostPath must be a realpath without symlinks. Is that not supported?

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        Didn't get an answer to my earlier question. Is it a symlink? You can't add symlinks.

        Can you try node -e "fs.realpathSync('/the/path')" ? This function is failing or returning something other than the path you are adding for some reason.

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          Can only speak for my issue, not a symlink:

          /mnt# ls -la
          total 12
          drwxr-xr-x  4 root root 4096 Jun  9 09:21 .
          drwxr-xr-x 23 root root 4096 Dec 17 11:10 ..
          drwxr-xr-x  1 root root    0 Jun  9 09:22 media
          drwxr-xr-x  2 root root 4096 Dec 17 11:31 volumes
          

          Your command doesn't fail, but doesn't give any output either.

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          • M msbt

            Can only speak for my issue, not a symlink:

            /mnt# ls -la
            total 12
            drwxr-xr-x  4 root root 4096 Jun  9 09:21 .
            drwxr-xr-x 23 root root 4096 Dec 17 11:10 ..
            drwxr-xr-x  1 root root    0 Jun  9 09:22 media
            drwxr-xr-x  2 root root 4096 Dec 17 11:31 volumes
            

            Your command doesn't fail, but doesn't give any output either.

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            @msbt said in Trying to add an sshfs mounted location as a regular file system volume type in Cloudron:

            Your command doesn't fail, but doesn't give any output either.

            My bad... Can you try like this:

            root@my:/mnt# node -e "console.log(fs.realpathSync('/mnt/folder'))"
            /mnt/folder
            
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              @msbt said in Trying to add an sshfs mounted location as a regular file system volume type in Cloudron:

              Your command doesn't fail, but doesn't give any output either.

              My bad... Can you try like this:

              root@my:/mnt# node -e "console.log(fs.realpathSync('/mnt/folder'))"
              /mnt/folder
              
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              msbt
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              @joseph sure:

              /mnt# node -e "console.log(fs.realpathSync('/mnt/media'))"
              /mnt/media
              
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              • M msbt

                @joseph sure:

                /mnt# node -e "console.log(fs.realpathSync('/mnt/media'))"
                /mnt/media
                
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                @msbt you are trying to add /mnt/media in the Volumes view ? I cannot see why https://git.cloudron.io/platform/box/-/blob/master/src/volumes.js?ref_type=heads#L57 will fail . That's where the error message comes from. If you are ok debugging a bit, just put some console.log in that function and systemctl restart box.

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                  @msbt you are trying to add /mnt/media in the Volumes view ? I cannot see why https://git.cloudron.io/platform/box/-/blob/master/src/volumes.js?ref_type=heads#L57 will fail . That's where the error message comes from. If you are ok debugging a bit, just put some console.log in that function and systemctl restart box.

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                  @joseph happy to, can you maybe enable chat so we can do that 1:1?

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                    @msbt can you instead write to me at support@cloudron.io please? Will debug it right away.

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                      wrote last edited by msbt
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                      My issue is resolved, adding a --allow-other parameter to the mount solved it, thanks @girish and @joseph

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