docker data volume


//=== https://docs.docker.com/userguide/dockervolumes/#volume

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A data volume is a specially-designated directory within one or more containers
that bypasses the Union File System.

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Data volumes are designed to persist data, independent of the container's life cycle.
Docker therefore never automatically delete volumes when you remove a container,
nor will it "garbage collect" volumes that are no longer referenced by a container.


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You can add a data volume to a container using the -v flag with the docker create and docker run command.
You can use the -v multiple times to mount multiple data volumes

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You can also use the VOLUME instruction in a Dockerfile to add one or more new volumes to any container
created from that image.


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The -v flag can also be used to mount a single file - instead of just directories - from the host machine.

$ sudo docker run --rm -it -v ~/.bash_history:/.bash_history ubuntu /bin/bash


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Creating and mounting a Data Volume Container

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Let's create a new named container with a volume to share.
While this container doesn't run an application,
it reuses the training/postgres image so that ... saving disk space.

$ sudo docker create -v /dbdata --name dbdata training/postgres

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$ sudo docker run -d --volumes-from dbdata --name db1 training/postgres

$ sudo docker run -d --volumes-from dbdata --name db2 training/postgres

... The result is only the files from the dbdata container are visible.

... You can use multiple --volumes-from parameters to bring together multiple data volumes from multiple containers.


$ sudo docker run -d --name db3 --volumes-from db1 training/postgres

... To delete the volume from disk, you must explicitly call
docker rm -v against the last container with a reference to the volume.



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