I'm using Docker Desktop for Windows and I want to find where the volumes are created by Docker, in a Linux container?
Has anyone been able to perform the volume mounting that I am trying to achieve?
If you're just trying to mount a windows path to a Linux based container, here's an example using the basic docker run command, and a Docker Compose example as well:
docker run -d --name qbittorrent -v '/mnt/f/Fetched Media/Unsorted:/downloads' -v '/mnt/f/Fetched Media/Blackhole:/blackhole' linuxserver/qbittorrent
This example shares the f:\Fetched Media\Unsorted and f:\Fetched Media\Blackhole folders on the Windows host to the container; and within the Linux container you'd see the files from those Windows folders in their respective Linux paths shown to the right of the colon(s).
i.e. the f:\Fetched Media\Unsorted folder will be in the /downloads folder in the Linux container.
*First though, make sure you've shared those Windows folders within the Docker Desktop settings area in the GUI.
Update for WSL(2):
You don't need to specifically share the Windows folder paths; that's only needed when not using WSL.
Update:
This seems to be a popular answer, so I thought I'd also include a Docker Compose version of the above example, for the sake of thoroughness (includes how to set a path as read-write (rw), or read-only (ro)):
qbittorrent:
image: 'linuxserver/qbittorrent:latest'
volumes:
- '/mnt/f/Fetched Media/Unsorted:/downloads:rw'
- '/mnt/f/Fetched Media/Blackhole:/blackhole:rw'
- '/mnt/e/Logs/qbittorrent:/config/logs:rw'
- '/opt/some-local-folder/you-want/read-only:/some-folder-inside-container:ro'