Adding already mounted external storage to nextcloud

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Nextcloud version Nextcloud Hub 3 (25.0.3)
Operating system and version “Ubuntu 22.04.1 LTS”
Apache or nginx version - Apache 2.4.25)

The issue you are facing:

Is this the first time you’ve seen this error? Yes

Steps to replicate it:

  1. Go to amin setting for external storage add the following -

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  2. Get the red error at the left

The output of your Nextcloud log in Admin > Logging:

Upon replicating this, nothing appears in the log that relates to this.

Can anyone offer any suggestions why this is not working.

Thanks in advance.
Gregor

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For anyone else having this issue.

I found out that it was because my volume wasn’t declared properly in my docker compose.

I changed it to -

volumes:
-/mnt/nextcloud:/mnt/nextcloud