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Sorry if any information is missing but I am new at this. I bought a Raspberry Pi and I am trying to run Nextcloud on it with my external HDD.
The Basics
- Nextcloud Server version (e.g., 29.x.x):
32.0.0
- Operating system and version (e.g., Ubuntu 24.04):
Debian GNU/Linux 12
- Web server and version (e.g, Apache 2.4.25):
Apache 2.4.65
- Reverse proxy and version _(e.g. nginx 1.27.2)
None
- PHP version (e.g, 8.3):
8.3.26
- Is this the first time you’ve seen this error? (Yes / No):
yes
- When did this problem seem to first start?
after creating Dockerfile
- Installation method (e.g. AlO, NCP, Bare Metal/Archive, etc.)
Docker
- Are you using CloudfIare, mod_security, or similar? (Yes / No)
Cloudflare tunnel
Summary of the issue you are facing:
I have created a DockerFile, which I build and then executed with docker-compose
Dockerfile:
rishiakpi@rishiakpi:\~/Desktop/nextcloud $ cat Dockerfile
FROM nextcloud:latest
RUN apt-get update && apt-get install -y --no-install-recommends
imagemagick
ffmpeg
libreoffice
&& rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/\*
docker-compose.yml
rishiakpi@rishiakpi:~/Desktop/nextcloud $ cat docker-compose.yml
services:
db:
image: mariadb
container_name: nextcloud_db
restart: always
environment:
MYSQL_ROOT_PASSWORD: XXXXX
MYSQL_DATABASE: XXXXX
MYSQL_USER: XXXXX
MYSQL_PASSWORD: XXXXX
volumes:
- db_data:/var/lib/mysql
app:
build: .
container_name: nextcloud_app
ports:
- "3002:80"
restart: always
environment:
MYSQL_PASSWORD: XXXXX
MYSQL_DATABASE: XXXXX
MYSQL_USER: XXXXXX
MYSQL_HOST: XXXX
volumes:
- ~/Desktop/nextcloud/dockerdata:/var/www/html
- /mnt:/disks
depends_on:
- db
volumes:
db_data:
HDD mounting
I have set in my /etc/fstab to mount the drives like this
rishiakpi@rishiakpi:~/Desktop/nextcloud $ cat /etc/fstab
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
PARTUUID=da4981d2-01 /boot/firmware vfat defaults 0 2
PARTUUID=da4981d2-02 / ext4 defaults,noatime 0 1
UUID=4E1A898A1A896FAF /mnt/myhdd ntfs-3g defaults,nofail,x-systemd.device-timeout=15,x-systemd.automount,noatime 0 0
UUID=645317be-958b-415a-9c28-52bfb91638f2 /mnt/myhdd2 ext4 defaults,noatime,nofail,x-systemd.device-timeout=15,x-systemd.automount 0 0
UUID=2ED6E5939B54CF17 /mnt/ivkahdd ntfs-3g defaults,nofail,x-systemd.device-timeout=15,x-systemd.automount,noatime 0 0
External folders
Problem
When I run docker-compose up -d my nextcloud works normally, I mounted external folders and I can go to /disks/myhdd for example in nextcloud bash. The problem occurs when I reboot the PI. Nextcloud should start automatically, everything loads and when I open nextcloud, I cant access my external folders. When I open nextcloud bash and try to navigate to the folder, for example /disks/myhdd i get Too many levels of symbolic links.
When I use docker restart nextcloud_app, it works. My question is, is there a possibility to mount my external HDDs to nextcloud so I won’t have to restart the container after every reboot? I don’t want to mount them each manually, because sometimes they wont be plugged in and nextcloud won’t start if I explicitly mount them in docker-compose and they are not plugged in. I also set enable sharing and previews on my external folders.
So my question is:
Is there a way to set this up so nextcloud starts on boot and has access to those HDDs, which are plugged in without failing because some of them may not be plugged in without the need to restart the container manually? Or am I doing something wrong?