Posts by retif

Unfortunately, that didn't work, but it helped me to realize that rclone doesn't respect symlinks by default. And after reading its documentation a bit I found a solution - to create a config section for local disk with this option provided and then use disk:/var/media/mydisk instead of /var/media/mydisk, and then it will use the right path to external disk.

If anyone else would need it - /storage/.config/rclone/rclone.conf:

[disk]
type = local
copy_links = true

Actually, copy_links = true is an overkill here, but should help in case of ln -s /var/media/mydisk /storage/var/media/mydisk.

LibreELEC on Raspberry Pi 3 Model B. External HDD is connected via USB.

# lsb_release -a
LibreELEC (official): 9.1.501

# df -h
Filesystem                Size      Used Available Use% Mounted on
devtmpfs                367.4M         0    367.4M   0% /dev
/dev/mmcblk0p1          511.7M    140.6M    371.1M  27% /flash
/dev/mmcblk0p2           13.9G    147.5M     13.7G   1% /storage
/dev/loop0              126.5M    126.5M         0 100% /
tmpfs                   373.9M         0    373.9M   0% /dev/shm
tmpfs                   373.9M      8.1M    365.8M   2% /run
tmpfs                   373.9M         0    373.9M   0% /sys/fs/cgroup
tmpfs                   373.9M     16.0K    373.9M   0% /var
tmpfs                   373.9M     60.8M    313.1M  16% /tmp
/dev/sdb1                 1.8T      1.5T    314.8G  83% /var/media/mydisk

I installed rclone to download files from my server over SFTP. And that works just fine, for example this command:

# rclone copy myserver:/some/path/video.mkv /var/media/mydisk/downloads/

...successfully downloads video.mkv to /var/media/mydisk/downloads/, so it is saved to my external HDD.

As the next step I ran rclone with its web-based GUI and connected to it from browser on my PC. Using its explorer I can successfully browse my external HDD (/var/media/mydisk/). But downloading a file from remote server behaves weirdly: the download itself goes just fine, but instead of /var/media/mydisk/downloads/ the file is saved to /storage/var/media/mydisk/downloads/, so it looks like rclone "thinks" that / "resolves" to /storage/.

Do you think it can be "fixed" somehow in the system (as I guess it is caused by non-standard folders structure in LibreELEC), or does it look more like a bug in rclone's web GUI?