Docker volume is not getting created for tomcat webapp, how to fix that?

[avbentem (Arjan)]

Alternatively, when using Linux, you may decide to access the Docker-managed volumes from the host directly. I have never done that (and the documentation says “Non-Docker processes should not modify this part of the filesystem”). But apparently that’s okay:

@meyay

For read operations it shouldn’t be a problem at all.
For write operations it shouldn’t be a problem as well, as for anonymous/named volume the mountpoint /var/lib/docker/volumes/${volumename}/_data is the folder where the content is stored. (irrelevant for this case, but good to know: for named volumes baked by a remote share this folder is the location the remote share is mounted in),

I don’t see a real reason to not mess arround with it’s content. Though, its absolutly true to not mess arround with the files inside its parent folders.