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Mount Volume Into Running Container

How to Mount a volume into a Running Docker Container#

So you have a running container, that you have done significant stuff in and want to ensure that what you have done in the container - persists. In this case, I don’t know where the container is storing the configuration I have done.

You commit the container.

So get the running container’s id:

docker container list

Then commit it:

docker commit <running-container-id> <commit-name>

Now create the folder for your mount and mount it:

docker run -d -p 5000:8080 --mount type=bind,source=<my-source>,target=<my-target> <commit-name>

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