How to mount Docker volume along with subfolders on the host?

[meyay (Metin Y.)]

@sikotic

I was under the impression that bind mounts didn’t copy data. Are you saying that, if you create a volume which is a bind mount, and then reference it by name in your compose file, it still copies the data?

A bind mount as in “-v /host/path:/container/path” indeed does not, but a volume backed by a bind should. If you use the nocopy mode, of course a volume backed by a bind will behave like a normal bind-mount (those not listed in docker volume ls).