Creating Symbolic Links in OpenMedia Vault

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Creating Symbolic Links in OpenMedia Vault.
Since 5.5.20 drives are mounted by UUID and not label any more. This can be pretty annoying anytime you need to reference the absolute path of a mounted volume.

A potential solution is to use the openmediavault-symlinks plugin
https://github.com/OpenMediaVault-Plugin-Developers/openmediavault-symlinks/tree/master/usr/share/openmediavault

Possibly manualy created symbolic links will work too

Install

System>Plugins>openmediavault-symlinks>+Install

Create Link

Services>Symlinks>+Add

Source: /srv/dev-disk-by-uuid-1151e028-3e1f-4f1a-a887-b24a037afb3b
Destination: /mnt/2TB

Notes

Apparently this does not play well with docker bind mounts.

  • https://github.com/OpenMediaVault-Plugin-Developers/openmediavault-symlinks/tree/master/usr/share/openmediavault