I’m trying to setup my first homeserver with pods alone but I can’t add my mounted /data (it’s an external HDD) folder to the root folder, but the /app and /config works. It’s a common issue but somehow I wasn’t able to solve it.
OS: Rocky Linux 9.3
External HDD (WD Elements)
external HDD in /etc/fstab:
# WD Elements drive
UUID=4655386a-5ccf-4c7b-ad6a-c0b90ccf8454 /home/privatenoob/media/storage1 xfs defaults 0 0
radarr.service:
[Unit]
Description=Radarr Movie Server
After=network.target
[Service]
ExecStart=podman run --name=radarr -e PUID=1000 -e PGID=1000 -e UMASK=002 -p 7878:7878 -v radarr-config:/config -v /home/privatenoob/media/storage1/Filmek:/data --restart unless-stopped lscr.io/linuxserver/radarr:latest
ExecStop=podman stop radarr
Restart=on-failure
[Install]
WantedBy=default.target
Permissions:
drwxr-xr-x. 2 privatenoob privatenoob 6 Jan 17 16:52 Filmek
drwxr-xr-x 4 abc users 139 Jan 18 19:44 config
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 6 Jan 17 15:52 data
chown -R 1000:1000 /data didn’t work. It gave permission denied, even though I used root (probably this is because of -e PUID=1000?)
There are a few ways around it. The simplest is to add the
--privileged
option.The more secure method with podman is by specifying a user (ex
-u 10001:10001
) from your extended subuid:subgid range after your full and proper setup of rootless podman :-)Then instead of
chown
you’ll want to use the oddly namedpodman unshare
tool to automatically set the permissions of the host directory. You would then want to start your service withsystemctl --user
instead ofsudo systemctl