Cannot follow symlinks from distrobox about distrobox HOT 2 CLOSED

This depends on how the symlinks are set up.
Relative symlinks will work as long as the container has access to it within the volume (ex. using a symlink that leads to ../../Folder, as long as the container can find Folder 2 directories up from the symlink it will work)
However if you have a symlink for lets say your Pictures folder and it goes to /mnt/disk1/Pictures, the container will not have a valid path to /mnt/disk1/Pictures as it would be under /run/host/mnt/disk1/Pictures inside the container.

I use a bind mount instead of a symlink for when i have things in locations that i want accessible from the home directory but also want accessible through a container, if you have many of these it will look messy in lsblk but it is the only way i have found where the container can access the contents that i would otherwise have symlinked.

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While not a terribly fun solution either, you can also do this, taking those exact paths as an example:

distrobox enter whatever
sudo mkdir -p /mnt/disk1/Pictures
sudo mount --bind /run/host/mnt/disk1/Pictures /mnt/disk1/Pictures

This works for me.

I suppose if you put that in the /etc/fstab of your distrobox container and perhaps run a hook or something, it would be automagic and a great solution.

I can't seem to get the hooks to fire on start-up, but that would finish the job.

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