Container mounting a dataset on host

Apps and Virtualization
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I’ve created a container so I can run Resilio Sync on the TrueNAS server rather than in a Windows VM on a Windows Host

I created the VM using Debian Bookworm (The name was from when I thought I’d use it for something else)

I created the disk mapping

/mnt/Vault/Huge → /mnt/Huge

testing

root@HDHomeRun:~# ls /mnt/Huge/
ls: cannot open directory ‘/mnt/Huge/’: Operation not permitted
root@HDHomeRun:~# cd /mnt
root@HDHomeRun:/mnt# ls -la
total 74
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 3 Feb 7 15:24 .
drwxr-xr-x 17 root root 21 Feb 5 05:32 ..
drwxrwx— 50 nobody nogroup 105 Jan 24 18:37 Huge

obliviously the permission nobody nogroup is wrong but before I screw anything up I thought I’d ask

Googling is driving me down various blind alleys as the results are for 25.04 / 25.04 beta etc which don’t match

the Docs imply a drive rather than a mount point?

I don’t want to have to map the dataset via nfs/smb

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Just to be clear, by container you mean an lxc, not a docker container right?
If the answer is yes try adding the truenas_container_unpriv_root user to the datasets ACL list. That user gets mapped to the root user inside the lxc and should let you access the dataset

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That’s what it is

I’ll raise a ticket to get the Docs changed

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I think what you’re looking for is already covered in the Managing Container Permissions and Granting Root Access to Host Paths sections?

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