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Help with Rootless Podman and remote volume mounts (feddit.nl)
submitted 2 years ago by to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world
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I'm trying to switch my existing Docker setup to a rootless podman one. The main issue tripping me is how to mount remote volumes. My file server is a different machine, so I mount the data into docker containers via a NFS volume. However, I can't do this with podman since the normal user doesn't have the rights for mounting NFS drives. Only the root user can do that.

One option I've thought of is to mount everything I need via fstab and use bind mounts. Is there a better solution?

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[–] 4 points 2 years ago

It's not possible to mount NFS shares without root (a rootful container would work but I don't recommend it). Docker allows it because it implicitly runs as root. Cleanest solution is to mount it from the host's fstab and use a bind mount.

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