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Running a vanilla MC server in Debian, and I'm having an issue where the server seems to be generating nested /mod folders with redundant data, is this normal?

The full file path to the current deepest iteration is:

/home/appdata/Minecraft/My_Server/mods/mods/mods/mods/mods/mods/mods/mods/mods/mods/mods/mods/mods/mods/mods/mods

What's going on here? This creates a drastic increase in storage use and looks sloppy. Is there a way to organize it more effectively?

Update: backed up the server, deleted the whole /mods root folder, and on boot the log posts this:

Running as uid=1003 gid=100 with /data as 'drwxrwxr-x    6 1003     100           4096 Aug 21 08:06 /data'
Checking version information.
Checking type information.
server.properties already created, skipping
Checking for JSON files.
Copying any mods over...
update:mods/banned-ips.json:Last Modified 2019/08/20-14:54:51

And proceeds to duplicate all files into the newly created /mods folder.

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  • Are you sure it's a vanilla executable and not forge, spigot or similar?
    – dly
    Commented Aug 21, 2019 at 15:52
  • I generated a new docker container as a test, and the exact same thing is happening in the fresh test server.
    – user236485
    Commented Aug 21, 2019 at 15:58
  • With what command do you start the server? Are there any non-empty JSON files, except ops and whitelist?
    – dly
    Commented Aug 21, 2019 at 16:04
  • I use a gui that sends a /start command. usercache.json seems to be the only .json containing data.
    – user236485
    Commented Aug 21, 2019 at 17:14
  • strange.. seems your GUI is causing this. Try starting the server directly and see what happens without docker
    – dly
    Commented Aug 21, 2019 at 17:20

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Answer from the creator of the docker I'm using.

You'll either need to disable the mounts of /config and /mods or at least bind them to different host paths than you have configured for /data

The /mods and /config are optional to let you manually populate a shared directory/volume each with your common configurations and those get copied over to the container's /data directory...so it's quite normal to either not attach those paths or point them at empty directories.

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