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Can only use /home (and /media?) #1

Open panlinux opened 4 years ago

panlinux commented 4 years ago

Hi,

this might not be solvable in the snap, because, snaps. But I find it very restrictive to only be able to use /home to store the downloaded media.

I have a backup server where I wanted to store my google photos data, and I'm obviously not mounting its directories under /home, but elsewhere (/storage for that matter). This snap cannot use that mountpoint.

popey commented 4 years ago

One alternative is to use a bind mount. 

sudo mkdir /media/photos
sudo mount -o bind /storage/photos /media/photos

Using the removable-media interface, the application will be able to see the files under /media/photos.

panlinux commented 4 years ago

I understand there are workarounds, I just wished there was something more "native" to the snap, like me, the user who installed it (as root), telling it that it's ok to use a particular directory on my system. In fact, I would not want it to be able to read my /home.

popey commented 4 years ago

Yeah, sorry about that. Perhaps start a thread with a strawman proposal for how you would expect to see this, over on the snapcraft forum?