Docker volume creation for entire container

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Hi

Assuming we have a container with name “container1”, is there a way to create a named volume “vol1” that can store the entire container root system / state within in the volume.

By this I mean can we mount the entire container’s filesystem ("/") within a volume?

Thanks.

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Simple answer would be “No”, we can’t data volume a base ("/") directory: destination can’t be ‘/’. But I do believe, you can mount individual directory in “/” like /etc, /var ,etc as separate data volumes.

Also may I know the use case, where it is required?