Is it possible to track live changes on a folder path in the host system to update data in the container without needing to restart the container. I am currently using a host mounted volume, but if data is updated in the file, it will not update inside the container unless it is restarted. My docker…

Can you please format your compose file content according this instructions: [image] How to format your forum posts General The Docker forum is using Discourse , which supports several ways to format your posts: Markdown; see commonmark.org/help for an intera…

It should work on Windows too. Are you sure you mounted the right folder and you are checking the file in the container in the right folder? Is it a file that your user can access? I am asking it because your source path is an absolute path pointing to a folder under “Users”

Yes, it is the correct path. I have noticed that it does work on Linux based on how I edit it. If I edit it with a gui, it doesn’t work. When I use the “nano” command to edit documents on linux, it did work. I used the windows notepad to edit a txt file and it didn’t work.

Interesting. Based on your example compose file I assumed you mount a whole folder, but in that case it should not matter how you edit a file in that folder. Because of my assumtion I didn’t mention what you found out, but when you mount only a file on Linux, Docker will use the inode behind the fil…

I am mounting a whole folder. I am just using a txt document inside as a test for making changes to the folder.

Then I don’t know why it doesn’t work. I mounted a folder, changed the file with notepad on Windows and it changed in the container too.

Tracking folder on host machine to use in container

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meyay (Metin Y.) August 1, 2022, 4:26pm 2

Can you please format your compose file content according this instructions:

This would’ve worked fine with docker-ce on Linux. As I can’t say how the behavior or Docker Desktop for Windows is, I have to leave this one for someone else to respond.

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