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Mount a Nextcloud folder (programming.dev)
submitted 7 months ago by menzel@programming.dev to c/nix@programming.dev
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Is it possible to mount a Nextcloud folder into the filesystem within the nix config that other services can use it? For example have a jellyfin server use the a family shared nextcloud folder

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[-] onlinepersona@programming.dev 2 points 7 months ago

Nextcloud allows webdav and has a guide how to do so manually on linux

You can create a systemd user units that runs a script to mount your nextcloud or systemd user services. I'm not sure how to create it for a specific user instead of all users using the nixos options.
I know home-manager does support systemd services for your user using systemd.user.services. This has an example. Some dude made a video too.

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[-] InEnduringGrowStrong@sh.itjust.works 2 points 7 months ago

I've done variations of this concept, but I never tried that in NixOS.
Something that should be pretty universal though, is to keep it read-only everywhere except one read-write container.
Generally speaking, having multiple containers with write access to the same folder is a recipe for headaches.

[-] Gooey0210@sh.itjust.works 1 points 7 months ago

Why not, I have some really really good combos working, like:

Synching + photoprism

Transmission + jellyfin (optionally with *arr)

[-] InEnduringGrowStrong@sh.itjust.works 1 points 7 months ago

Depends on the thing it's doing and how low level it expects to access the storage.
The things you named are pretty much made to work with each other in mind so there's no issue.

Weird issues can happen if two things try to write the same file.

[-] flashgnash@lemm.ee 2 points 7 months ago

You could always just setup your nextcloud directory to be network mountable

Though I've found badness comes from trying to modify nextcloud's filesystem from outside nextcloud

[-] Gooey0210@sh.itjust.works 2 points 7 months ago

Good point, nextcloud requires manual scan after files were changed outside of nextcloud

[-] gramgan@lemmy.ml 1 points 7 months ago

Not sure if this is what you're looking for, but the nextcloud-client package works fine on my system.

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