I have been watching a tutorial video, and in my case I mount a local dir like so: docker run -it --rm --name videodownloaderweb --env-file env.list -v /mnt/share:/data And this lets me mount /mnt/share (which is a virt-manager shared folder from vm host) to /data within the container. The Docker…

Missing documented feature for "docker run -v /app/node_modules" which does not specify source dir?

rimelek (Ákos Takács) June 3, 2024, 9:05pm 2

In the case of named volumes, the first field is the name of the volume, and is unique on a given host machine. For anonymous volumes, the first field is omitted.

But I never use anonymous volumes. Those can fill up your disk and you will not even know what that volume was for unless it is mounted to a container at the moment.

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