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Docker : Use External Storage2021/04/06

 
When containers are removed, data in them are also lost, so it's necessary to use external filesystem in containers as persistent storages if you need.
[1] It's possible to mount a directory on Docker Host into containers.
# create a directory for containers data

[root@dlp ~]#
mkdir -p /var/lib/docker/disk01

[root@dlp ~]#
echo "persistent storage" >> /var/lib/docker/disk01/testfile.txt
# run a container with mounting the directory above on [/mnt]

[root@dlp ~]#
docker run -it -v /var/lib/docker/disk01:/mnt centos /bin/bash
[root@81396e59ba03 /]#
df -hT

Filesystem          Type     Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
overlay             overlay   71G  3.4G   68G   5% /
tmpfs               tmpfs     64M     0   64M   0% /dev
tmpfs               tmpfs    7.8G     0  7.8G   0% /sys/fs/cgroup
shm                 tmpfs     64M     0   64M   0% /dev/shm
/dev/mapper/cs-root xfs       71G  3.4G   68G   5% /mnt
tmpfs               tmpfs    7.8G     0  7.8G   0% /proc/acpi
tmpfs               tmpfs    7.8G     0  7.8G   0% /proc/scsi
tmpfs               tmpfs    7.8G     0  7.8G   0% /sys/firmware

[root@81396e59ba03 /]#
cat /mnt/testfile.txt

persistent storage
[2] It's also possible to configure external storage by Docker Data Volume command.
# create [volume01] volume

[root@dlp ~]#
docker volume create volume01

volume01
# display volume list

[root@dlp ~]#
docker volume ls

DRIVER    VOLUME NAME
local     volume01

# display details of [volume01]

[root@dlp ~]#
docker volume inspect volume01

[
    {
        "CreatedAt": "2021-04-06T00:25:10-06:00",
        "Driver": "local",
        "Labels": {},
        "Mountpoint": "/var/lib/docker/volumes/volume01/_data",
        "Name": "volume01",
        "Options": {},
        "Scope": "local"
    }
]

# run a container with mounting [volume01] to [/mnt] on container

[root@dlp ~]#
docker run -it -v volume01:/mnt centos
[root@18c6165c9ded /]#
df -hT /mnt

Filesystem          Type  Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/mapper/cs-root xfs    71G  3.4G   68G   5% /mnt

[root@18c6165c9ded /]#
echo "Docker Volume test" > /mnt/testfile.txt

[root@18c6165c9ded /]#
exit
[root@dlp ~]#
cat /var/lib/docker/volumes/volume01/_data/testfile.txt

Docker Volume test
# possible to mount from other containers

[root@dlp ~]#
docker run -v volume01:/var/volume01 centos /usr/bin/cat /var/volume01/testfile.txt

Docker Volume test
# to remove volumes, do like follows

[root@dlp ~]#
docker volume rm volume01

Error response from daemon: remove volume01: volume is in use - [18c6165c9ded7f0774ea39c391dd49860c1fcd720bf744d557069c758cb7eaf2, e6ee46179535325d325e866ca10d6420816f0baa6a7803ef46d989637ddcb98e]

# if some containers are using the volume you'd like to remove like above,

# it needs to remove target containers before removing a volume

[root@dlp ~]#
docker rm 18c6165c9ded7f0774ea39c391dd49860c1fcd720bf744d557069c758cb7eaf2

[root@dlp ~]#
docker rm e6ee46179535325d325e866ca10d6420816f0baa6a7803ef46d989637ddcb98e
[root@dlp ~]#
docker volume rm volume01

volume01
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