Podman : Use External Storage (NFS)2025/11/12

	This is an example to use NFS External Storage.
[1]	NFS server is required to be running on your LAN, refer to here. On this example, configure [/home/nfsshare] directory on [nfs.srv.world] as a shared directory.
[2]	Create a volume for NFS and use it.

# create [nfs-volume] volume

[root@dlp ~]# podman volume create \
--opt type=nfs4 \
--opt o=rw \
--opt device=10.0.0.35:/home/nfsshare nfs-volume 
nfs-volume

# display volume list

[root@dlp ~]#

podman volume ls

DRIVER      VOLUME NAME
local       nfs-volume

# display details of [nfs-volume]

[root@dlp ~]#

podman volume inspect nfs-volume

[
     {
          "Name": "nfs-volume",
          "Driver": "local",
          "Mountpoint": "/var/lib/containers/storage/volumes/nfs-volume/_data",
          "CreatedAt": "2025-11-12T09:09:30.980101571+09:00",
          "Labels": {},
          "Scope": "local",
          "Options": {
               "device": "10.0.0.35:/home/nfsshare",
               "o": "rw",
               "type": "nfs4"
          },
          "MountCount": 0,
          "NeedsCopyUp": true,
          "NeedsChown": true,
          "LockNumber": 8
     }
]

# run container with mounting [nfs-volume] to [/nfsshare] on container

[root@dlp ~]#

podman run -it -v nfs-volume:/nfsshare fedora

# verify

bash-5.3#

df -hT /nfsshare

Filesystem               Type  Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
10.0.0.35:/home/nfsshare nfs4  157G  2.1G  147G   2% /nfsshare

bash-5.3#

echo "Podman NFS Volume Test" > /nfsshare/testfile.txt

bash-5.3#

cat /nfsshare/testfile.txt

Podman NFS Volume Test

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