Portainer adding volumes fails

mfizz · February 8, 2019 at 11:54 PM

I am trying to get portainer up and running, but I cannot seem to mount volumes no matter what I try.

I want to mount an external hard drive connected directly to the libreelec machine. I cannot mount this or any folder on the home folder of libreelec.

I keep getting errors invalid option key: "mountpoint"

I believe this may have something to do with "local" drivers

I have added the absolute path too as just the name, and i get:

Code

Failurecreate /var/media/sda1-usb-TO_Exter_nal_USB: "/var/media/sda1-usb-TO_Exter_nal_USB" includes invalid characters for a local volume name, only "[a-zA-Z0-9][a-zA-Z0-9_.-]" are allowed. If you intended to pass a host directory, use absolute path

What am I doing wrong?

**aptalca** · February 9, 2019 at 1:02 AM

Are you trying to create a volume or do a bind mount? You need to specify that on portainer

mfizz · February 9, 2019 at 7:33 AM

I am trying to do a bind mount for now. How do I specify it so it creates it?

**aptalca** · February 9, 2019 at 3:54 PM

Select bind and type in the absolute path?

Start with a folder under storage like /storage/test to make sure that it actually is working, then you can move on to your external drive

mfizz · February 10, 2019 at 5:15 PM

Got it thanks. I was adding in the volumes section rather than individual programs. Thanks.