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Help with Rootless Podman and remote volume mounts (feddit.nl)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/selfhosted

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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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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You can mount NFS shares as non-root user, look it up some more.

What trips people is that it needs some extra configuration on both server and client, the UID needs to match, and the user needs to own the mountpoint dir.

The error message from NFS ("only root can do that") doesn't help either.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Can you really? I'd love some pointers on that. I'll try to look it up more, thanks