Do I need to first manually create directories on the host?

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Getting ready to use Docker for the very first time and install a container. The container has parameters. One of following parameters is:

-v path to data:/config \

I assume that I need to first manually create the “path to data” directories on the host first?

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Actually docker creates the host and container directories if they don’t exist. Which you can see if you run for example docker run -it --rm -v /tmp/busybox:/data busybox.

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Hi

FYI

The way its used in your example, is by using a volume instead of a bind mount (where you mount a path on the host)