Where are the docker volumes on Home Assistant OS?

Installation Home Assistant OS
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Yesterday I deployed my first stack (immich) on portainer, running on my HA OS n my Pi4. I created a volume “immich-library”, mounted it to the stack, and deployed it.
It worked. So far, so good.

Then I tried to login via ssh (using “Advanced SSH & Web Terminal” addon) and navigate to “/mnt/data/docker/volumes/immich-library/_data” where Portainer says I should find the data.
To my surprise, the “mnt” directory was empty!
I tried “docker volumes ls”, and sure enough, the volume is there.
I tried “docker volume inspect immich-library” and I got this

[
    {
        "CreatedAt": "2024-04-17T11:14:22Z",
        "Driver": "local",
        "Labels": null,
        "Mountpoint": "/mnt/data/docker/volumes/immich-library/_data",
        "Name": "immich-library",
        "Options": {},
        "Scope": "local"
    }
]

But the mnt is empty!
I tried to find / -type d -name volumes, and nothing.

So, where are the docker volumes on my Home Assistant OS?

4

Make sure you are in the OS file system and not the home assistant docker file system.

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And a few posts below that I put a link to setting up SSH into HAOS.

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And then you are in the HA Container and not in HA OS. And in the HA Container the “mnt” directory is empty.

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Gaining ssh access to the OS file system is described here Debugging the Home Assistant Operating System | Home Assistant Developer Docs (home-assistant.io)

Or you can use this Add-on
:new:[add-on] HassOS SSH port 22222 Configurator - Installation / Home Assistant OS - Home Assistant Community (home-assistant.io)

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I thought the standard terminal add-on gives me access to the host :slight_smile:
Thanks for the reference links, I ended up using the add-on that injects my pubkey in the host.