#Mount of ntfs path into /data appears in docker but files do not get written to the folder

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hexed quest
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I have installed on windows server 2022 and have a 5TB drive that I want to use for immich. I followed the instructions for installation and my K: drive contains folder immich which, in turn, contains the .env and compose.yml files. I have defined the UPLOAD_LOCATION as /mnt/k/immich/library and it shows as being mounted to the /data folder in the server container. Files that are uploaded show in the container as going to /data/library/<userid>/<year>/<month>/<day>/file_that_was_uploaded however the files are NOT in the mounted folder on the K: drive.

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hexed quest
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I can only post the info as screen captures since I'm remote to the server and only access it with screen sharing.

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crystal gyro
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This means your k drive was never mounted

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hexed quest
crystal gyro
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Sure, it might think that but it's obviously not true

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If the files upload succesfully and are downloadable/interactable then they exist solely in the docker image

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The easiest way to verify this is to create a file in your K: drive and see if it's visible in the container

hexed quest
crystal gyro
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Restarting the container might properly mount it this time, but I'm thinking Windows shenanigans and I can't help much with that

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It might have issues with the /mnt/k over K:\ for instance

hexed quest
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Well it's using WSL2 so the /mnt/k is what is expected by Debian which is what docker is using. I've been playing with this for 14 hours now, 10 of which were wasted trying to get postgres working ( i missed the note about it requiring an ext4 volume)

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If I didn't have 40+ TB of files on this server (storage spaces) I'd have converted to linux ages ago 🙂

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I'll check back after I get some sleep

crystal gyro
severe trail
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do docker inspect immich_server to verify if the path was actually mounted

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wait, are you using docker desktop?
you should be using docker for Linux IN wsl to run on Windows

hexed quest
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Interestingly it wanted the path to be provided using windows/dos format (including drive letter). Changing over to that allowed everything to work as designed. Something that you may want to add to the notes about installations on Windows Server.