Hi everyone, I have mounted a folder in a path in Linux to a partition. Then, I created a container from a PostgreSQL image and assigned its volume to the mounted folder. Now, I want to increase the size of that partition. To do this, I first stop the container, then use fdisk to increase the pa…

Please share how you create the container: If created by docker run, the exact docker run command. If created by docker compose up, the content of the compose file. There is a distinction between named volumes (mounting a docker manged volume handle into a container path) and binds (bind mounting…

Thank you for reply, Here is my yaml file, I run it with the stack component of Portainer before running stack, I run this command to create volume: docker create volume core_pg_db version: ‘2.1’ services: core_postgresql: container_name: core_pg_db image: ${CORE_POSTGRESQL_DB_IMAGE_NAME} re…

Please next time format your post according https://forums.docker.com/t/how-to-format-your-forum-posts/ . The way the compose file is posted, it is hard to read and does not allow seeing if indentation is correct. [image] meyay: If you created a named volume (docker volume create/inside a compos…

Here is my docker compose file: Here is my yaml file, I run it with the stack component of Portainer before running stack, I run this command to create volume: docker create volume core_pg_db version: '2.1' services: core_postgresql: container_name: core_pg_db image: ${CORE_POSTGRESQL_D…

Here is my docker compose file: version: '2.1' services: core_postgresql: container_name: core_pg_db image: ${CORE_POSTGRESQL_DB_IMAGE_NAME} restart: always environment: POSTGRES_USER: ${CORE_POSTGRESQL_DB_USERNAME} POSTGRES_PASSWORD: ${CORE_POSTGRESQL_DB_PASSWORD} …

[image] farhaadn: docker create volume core_pg_db This creates a named volume in the docker root dir. You need to increate the partition size of the filesystem that is mounted in the docker root dir or in one of it’s parent folders. docker info --format '{{.DockerRootDir}}' Your volume is l…

But 3 things why another container with the same configuration works fine? I mean when I add files to volume in a docker container, the exact mount point in the host got increased? why do I have the exact files as same as the container in my mounted host for the first container? check the below: …

I am not sure what to say about the questions. Also, I never look at text posted as screenshot. If you want me to look at it, please post it as Preformated Text. Please share the output of: docker inspect volume core_pg_db If something works for a volume and doesn’t work for another, please sha…

I think it was more understandable with screenshots, for my previous screenshots: on host: root@lsr-deployment:~# df -h | grep volume /dev/sdd1 989M 28K 922M 1% /var/volumes/traffic /dev/sdc1 989M 7.6M 914M 1% /var/volumes/syslog /dev/sdb1 989M 70M 852M 8% /var/vol…

My bad. I wrote docker inspect volume, even though I should have written docker volume inspect. docker inspect will check all resource types and returns whatever matches. That’s why it returned the inspect output of the container, instead of the volume. This is the type output I was expecting to …

Increase the partition size of container volume

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farhaadn (Farhaadn) June 28, 2023, 6:35am 9

But 3 things

why another container with the same configuration works fine? I mean when I add files to volume in a docker container, the exact mount point in the host got increased?
why do I have the exact files as same as the container in my mounted host for the first container?

check the below:

but after I copy file in the above folder in container, the size of / increased

what is the right solution that I have to do?

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