chown error on docker start

Hello! New here, trying to get photos into a solution other than SmugMug for long-term storage and viewing.

I've configured a VM (running on proxmox) with ubuntu. Installed docker; running an Immich container. I was able to get external libraries working fine referencing an NFS mount via the .env variable. Now I'm trying to get the default upload location to also sit on an NFS mount, as the VM doesn't have more than 80gb available rn (which I plan to fill with thumbnails).

I get the mount working via this fstab entry:

192.168.1.158:/var/nfs/shared/media/photo /mnt/nas_photo nfs auto,nofail,noatime,nolock,intr,tcp,actimeo=1800 0 0

192.168.1.158:/var/nfs/shared/media/photo /mnt/nas_photo nfs auto,nofail,noatime,nolock,intr,tcp,actimeo=1800 0 0

Mounts fine and I can move files there, create directories, all working as expected.

I then set the following in .env:

# The location where your uploaded files are stored
UPLOAD_LOCATION=/mnt/nas_photo/upload
THUMB_LOCATION=./library/thumb
ENCODED_VIDEO_LOCATION=./library/encoded-video
PROFILE_LOCATION=./library/profile
BACKUP_LOCATION=./library/backup

# The location where your uploaded files are stored
UPLOAD_LOCATION=/mnt/nas_photo/upload
THUMB_LOCATION=./library/thumb
ENCODED_VIDEO_LOCATION=./library/encoded-video
PROFILE_LOCATION=./library/profile
BACKUP_LOCATION=./library/backup

My docker compose has this for immich-server:

    volumes:
      # Do not edit the next line. If you want to change the media storage location on your system, edit the value of UPLOAD_LOCATION in the .env file
      - ${UPLOAD_LOCATION}:/data
      - ${THUMB_LOCATION}:/data/thumbs
      - ${ENCODED_VIDEO_LOCATION}:/data/encoded-video
      - ${PROFILE_LOCATION}:/data/profile
      - ${BACKUP_LOCATION}:/data/backups
      - /etc/localtime:/etc/localtime:ro
    env_file:
      - .env

    volumes:
      # Do not edit the next line. If you want to change the media storage location on your system, edit the value of UPLOAD_LOCATION in the .env file
      - ${UPLOAD_LOCATION}:/data
      - ${THUMB_LOCATION}:/data/thumbs
      - ${ENCODED_VIDEO_LOCATION}:/data/encoded-video
      - ${PROFILE_LOCATION}:/data/profile
      - ${BACKUP_LOCATION}:/data/backups
      - /etc/localtime:/etc/localtime:ro
    env_file:
      - .env

When starting docker, I get this error:

Error response from daemon: error while creating mount source path '/mnt/nas_photo/upload': chown /mnt/nas_photo/upload: operation not permitted

Error response from daemon: error while creating mount source path '/mnt/nas_photo/upload': chown /mnt/nas_photo/upload: operation not permitted

The upload folder is created on container start:

drwxrwx--- 1          977 988 0 Nov  2 12:25 upload

drwxrwx--- 1          977 988 0 Nov  2 12:25 upload

I'm not sure where to go from here. My understanding is that docker (by default) will run as root and should have access to the whole folder structure under /mnt/nas_photo.

Immich•4mo ago•

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Charlie Beals

chown error on docker start

192.168.1.158:/var/nfs/shared/media/photo /mnt/nas_photo nfs auto,nofail,noatime,nolock,intr,tcp,actimeo=1800 0 0

192.168.1.158:/var/nfs/shared/media/photo /mnt/nas_photo nfs auto,nofail,noatime,nolock,intr,tcp,actimeo=1800 0 0

Mounts fine and I can move files there, create directories, all working as expected.

I then set the following in .env:

# The location where your uploaded files are stored
UPLOAD_LOCATION=/mnt/nas_photo/upload
THUMB_LOCATION=./library/thumb
ENCODED_VIDEO_LOCATION=./library/encoded-video
PROFILE_LOCATION=./library/profile
BACKUP_LOCATION=./library/backup

# The location where your uploaded files are stored
UPLOAD_LOCATION=/mnt/nas_photo/upload
THUMB_LOCATION=./library/thumb
ENCODED_VIDEO_LOCATION=./library/encoded-video
PROFILE_LOCATION=./library/profile
BACKUP_LOCATION=./library/backup

My docker compose has this for immich-server:

    volumes:
      # Do not edit the next line. If you want to change the media storage location on your system, edit the value of UPLOAD_LOCATION in the .env file
      - ${UPLOAD_LOCATION}:/data
      - ${THUMB_LOCATION}:/data/thumbs
      - ${ENCODED_VIDEO_LOCATION}:/data/encoded-video
      - ${PROFILE_LOCATION}:/data/profile
      - ${BACKUP_LOCATION}:/data/backups
      - /etc/localtime:/etc/localtime:ro
    env_file:
      - .env

    volumes:
      # Do not edit the next line. If you want to change the media storage location on your system, edit the value of UPLOAD_LOCATION in the .env file
      - ${UPLOAD_LOCATION}:/data
      - ${THUMB_LOCATION}:/data/thumbs
      - ${ENCODED_VIDEO_LOCATION}:/data/encoded-video
      - ${PROFILE_LOCATION}:/data/profile
      - ${BACKUP_LOCATION}:/data/backups
      - /etc/localtime:/etc/localtime:ro
    env_file:
      - .env

When starting docker, I get this error:

Error response from daemon: error while creating mount source path '/mnt/nas_photo/upload': chown /mnt/nas_photo/upload: operation not permitted

Error response from daemon: error while creating mount source path '/mnt/nas_photo/upload': chown /mnt/nas_photo/upload: operation not permitted

The upload folder is created on container start:

drwxrwx--- 1          977 988 0 Nov  2 12:25 upload

drwxrwx--- 1          977 988 0 Nov  2 12:25 upload

I'm not sure where to go from here. My understanding is that docker (by default) will run as root and should have access to the whole folder structure under /mnt/nas_photo.

chown error on docker start

chown error on docker start

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