Volumes are not working

subtlecourage

I have added the volume in Cloudron

Its a local filesystem mount

I have added the mount in the app Lychee and Syncthing

However, when I got to either apps file manager, there is no Media folder

There is no media folder

Any ideas?

BrutalBirdie

@subtlecourage Because you are looking at the wrong place.

Read carefully what the Volumes text says:

Volumes are attached to the app's container under /media

Your file browser is pointing at /app/data/media if you want to view the volume you have to press the 3 dots on the right (menu button) and just click your volume that is mounted.

Or you can view the files in your terminal ls -lah /media

subtlecourage

@brutalbirdie

So it is located there, in the three drop down items, but I can not use the volume.

/media/portfolio

/portfolio

Error messages

BrutalBirdie

@subtlecourage I will try to replicate your problem.

subtlecourage

@brutalbirdie said in Volumes are not working:

@subtlecourage I will try to replicate your problem.

Thank you, it is appreciated.

BrutalBirdie

@subtlecourage Which app is showing this error message?
Since you show Lychee and Syncthing.

If you could provide some error tracing steps what you did that would be helpful.

BrutalBirdie

@brutalbirdie OK its Syncthing

BrutalBirdie

@subtlecourage OK so default the volume is mounted with permissions for root.

You can check this in the web terminal:

ls -lah /media/

root@d2ff17d2-7106-48bc-87bc-fab2342c0059:/app/code# ls -lah /media/
total 12K
drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 4.0K Oct  3 20:07 .
drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 4.0K Oct  3 20:07 ..
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4.0K Oct  3 20:09 portfolio

But this is wrong. If you check the permissions of /app/data/

ls -lah /app/data/

rwxr-xr-x 4 cloudron cloudron 4.0K Oct  3 20:06 .
drwxr-xr-x 1 root     root     4.0K Oct  3 20:07 ..
drwx------ 3 cloudron cloudron 4.0K Oct  3 20:09 config
drwxr-xr-x 2 cloudron cloudron 4.0K Oct  3 20:06 folders

The user is cloudron.

We can also check which user is running the process:

ps uax

USER         PID %CPU %MEM    VSZ   RSS TTY      STAT START   TIME COMMAND
root           1  0.1  0.0  28480 23648 pts/0    Ss+  20:17   0:00 /usr/bin/python3 /usr/bin/supervisord --configuration /etc/supervisor/supervisord.conf --nodaemon -i syncthing
cloudron      12  0.0  0.0 725144 16408 pts/0    Sl   20:17   0:00 /app/code/syncthing -gui-address=127.0.0.1:3000 -home=/app/data/config -no-browser -auditfile=-
root          13  0.0  0.0  18840  6184 pts/0    S    20:17   0:00 nginx: master process /usr/sbin/nginx -c /app/code/nginx.conf
cloudron      18  0.0  0.0  19188  3376 pts/0    S    20:17   0:00 nginx: worker process
cloudron      19  0.0  0.0  18984  2372 pts/0    S    20:17   0:00 nginx: cache manager process
cloudron      24  2.2  0.0 728088 49152 pts/0    SNl  20:17   0:02 /app/code/syncthing -gui-address=127.0.0.1:3000 -home=/app/data/config -no-browser -auditfile=-
root          39  0.0  0.0   4240  3460 pts/1    Ss   20:17   0:00 /bin/bash
root          58  0.0  0.0   5896  2828 pts/1    R+   20:19   0:00 ps uax

and the process is also running as user cloudron.

Now you can simple change the permissions for /media/portfolio

chown -R cloudron:cloudron /media/portfolio

Then reload Syncthing (browser refresh).

Now there is this warning / error hmmmm

BrutalBirdie

@brutalbirdie ok it seems I am just to impatient. But I just restarted the app and the .stfolder got created.

If this solved your problem please mark the little guide as the answer.

girish

Also, lychee has it's own "database" for files. It cannot use an existing directory. So, you cannot really use the volume feature to mount existing files and display them using lychee. You can to "upload" the files into lychee. See https://github.com/electerious/Lychee/blob/master/docs/FAQ.md#can-i-use-my-existing-folder-structure

subtlecourage

@brutalbirdie said in Volumes are not working:

@subtlecourage OK so default the volume is mounted with permissions for root.

You can check this in the web terminal:

ls -lah /media/

root@d2ff17d2-7106-48bc-87bc-fab2342c0059:/app/code# ls -lah /media/
total 12K
drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 4.0K Oct  3 20:07 .
drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 4.0K Oct  3 20:07 ..
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4.0K Oct  3 20:09 portfolio

But this is wrong. If you check the permissions of /app/data/

ls -lah /app/data/

rwxr-xr-x 4 cloudron cloudron 4.0K Oct  3 20:06 .
drwxr-xr-x 1 root     root     4.0K Oct  3 20:07 ..
drwx------ 3 cloudron cloudron 4.0K Oct  3 20:09 config
drwxr-xr-x 2 cloudron cloudron 4.0K Oct  3 20:06 folders

The user is cloudron.

We can also check which user is running the process:

ps uax

USER         PID %CPU %MEM    VSZ   RSS TTY      STAT START   TIME COMMAND
root           1  0.1  0.0  28480 23648 pts/0    Ss+  20:17   0:00 /usr/bin/python3 /usr/bin/supervisord --configuration /etc/supervisor/supervisord.conf --nodaemon -i syncthing
cloudron      12  0.0  0.0 725144 16408 pts/0    Sl   20:17   0:00 /app/code/syncthing -gui-address=127.0.0.1:3000 -home=/app/data/config -no-browser -auditfile=-
root          13  0.0  0.0  18840  6184 pts/0    S    20:17   0:00 nginx: master process /usr/sbin/nginx -c /app/code/nginx.conf
cloudron      18  0.0  0.0  19188  3376 pts/0    S    20:17   0:00 nginx: worker process
cloudron      19  0.0  0.0  18984  2372 pts/0    S    20:17   0:00 nginx: cache manager process
cloudron      24  2.2  0.0 728088 49152 pts/0    SNl  20:17   0:02 /app/code/syncthing -gui-address=127.0.0.1:3000 -home=/app/data/config -no-browser -auditfile=-
root          39  0.0  0.0   4240  3460 pts/1    Ss   20:17   0:00 /bin/bash
root          58  0.0  0.0   5896  2828 pts/1    R+   20:19   0:00 ps uax

and the process is also running as user cloudron.

Now you can simple change the permissions for /media/portfolio

chown -R cloudron:cloudron /media/portfolio

Then reload Syncthing (browser refresh).

Now there is this warning / error hmmmm

Sadly this did not solve my problem

I have followed your guide step by step and I get

I have ran your commands,

and I have restarted the app, twice after running those.

But it still has not done anything

BrutalBirdie

@subtlecourage do you know that linux is case sensitive?

You point to /media/Portfolio but from your ls -lah on /media the folder is called portfolio.
Also the error folder path missing is kind of a dead giveaway adding to the Failed to crate folder implying the folder does not exist hence the software tries to crate it.

subtlecourage

@brutalbirdie

Ha, always the simplest solution. Thank you.

BrutalBirdie

@subtlecourage so all sorted out? Now working as intended?

subtlecourage

@brutalbirdie Yup, all sorted and working as intended for now.
I have upvoted your comment above. Thank you.

SamGreenwood

I'm having a similar issue and, I think that the problem could be that for some reason the app can't access the mounted volume even though it's connected (to Cloudron) properly.

BrutalBirdie

@SamGreenwood
Then you should read the whole topic from the start
I also described a permission issue and how to fix it.

TL;DR
By default the mounted volume and folder are with root permission.
These need to be changed to cloudron.

SamGreenwood

I got it working

BrutalBirdie

@SamGreenwood That's nice to hear, but always share / link the solution!

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