diff --git a/playbooks/roles/services/deploy/notes/tasks/main.yml b/playbooks/roles/services/deploy/notes/tasks/main.yml
index e024ffc..546a2d1 100644
--- a/playbooks/roles/services/deploy/notes/tasks/main.yml
+++ b/playbooks/roles/services/deploy/notes/tasks/main.yml
@@ -21,7 +21,6 @@
       loop:
         - "pod-notes.service"
         - "container-notes-joplin.service"
-        - "container-notes-chown.service"
       register: services_deploy_notes_systemd_files
 
     - name: "systemd user daemon reload"
diff --git a/playbooks/roles/services/deploy/notes/templates/systemd/container-notes-chown.service b/playbooks/roles/services/deploy/notes/templates/systemd/container-notes-chown.service
deleted file mode 100644
index f1811af..0000000
--- a/playbooks/roles/services/deploy/notes/templates/systemd/container-notes-chown.service
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,28 +0,0 @@
-[Unit]
-Description=Podman container-notes-chown.service
-Documentation=man:podman-generate-systemd(1)
-After=pod-notes.service
-Before=container-notes-joplin.service
-OnFailure=status-mail@%n.service
-
-[Service]
-Environment=PODMAN_SYSTEMD_UNIT=%n
-TimeoutStopSec=70
-ExecStartPre=/bin/rm -f %t/container-notes-chown.pid %t/container-notes-chown.ctr-id
-ExecStart=/usr/bin/podman run \
-    --conmon-pidfile %t/container-notes-chown.pid \
-    --cidfile %t/container-notes-chown.ctr-id \
-    --cgroups=no-conmon \
-    --pod-id-file %t/pod-notes.pod-id \
-    --replace \
-    -v {{ services_data_directory }}/pod-notes/data/_data:/data \
-    --user=0 \
-    --entrypoint="/bin/bash" \
-    --name=pod-notes-chown \
-    docker.io/joplin/server:{{ services_service_deploy_versions.joplin }} \
-    -c "chown -R joplin:joplin /data"
-ExecStopPost=/usr/bin/podman rm --ignore -f --cidfile %t/container-notes-chown.ctr-id
-Type=oneshot
-
-[Install]
-WantedBy=container-notes-joplin.service
diff --git a/playbooks/roles/services/deploy/notes/templates/systemd/container-notes-joplin.service b/playbooks/roles/services/deploy/notes/templates/systemd/container-notes-joplin.service
index 4483a75..b88f63b 100644
--- a/playbooks/roles/services/deploy/notes/templates/systemd/container-notes-joplin.service
+++ b/playbooks/roles/services/deploy/notes/templates/systemd/container-notes-joplin.service
@@ -4,8 +4,7 @@ Documentation=man:podman-generate-systemd(1)
 Wants=network.target
 After=network-online.target
 BindsTo=pod-notes.service
-Requires=container-notes-chown.service
-After=pod-notes.service container-notes-chown.service
+After=pod-notes.service
 OnFailure=status-mail@%n.service
 
 [Service]
@@ -24,7 +23,7 @@ ExecStart=/usr/bin/podman run \
     -dt \
     -v {{ system_etc_root_directory }}/resolv.conf:/etc/resolv.conf:ro \
     -v ./.config/service/hosts:/etc/hosts:ro \
-    -v {{ services_data_directory }}/pod-notes/data/_data:/data \
+    -v {{ services_data_directory }}/pod-notes/data/_data:/data:U \
     -e APP_BASE_URL="https://{{ services[services_service_name].domain }}" \
     -e APP_PORT="22300" \
     -e DB_CLIENT="pg" \