I am currently using Boot2Docker on Windows. Is it possible to mount root to host?
Say that I'm using an Ubuntu image and I would like to mount / to the host. How can I do so?
I've been looking around and trying:
docker run -v /c/Users/ubuntu:/ --name ubuntu -dt ubuntu
But I ended up with an error:
docker: Error response from daemon: Invalid bind mount spec "/c/Users/ubuntu:/": volumeslash: Invalid specification: destination can't be '/' in '/c/Users/Leon/ubuntu:/'.
It's the problem with how you are specifying the path. See the example of mounting a local volume to be used by a container for MongoDB:
docker run --name *container-name* -v **/Users/SKausha3/mongo/imageservicedb/data**:/*data* -v **/Users/SKausha3/mongo/imageservicedb/backup**:/*backup*
c:/Users/SKausha3/mongo/imageservicedb/data is my local folder, but you have to remove 'c:' from the path.
Since you cant mount "/" one option is to add a "WORKDIR" to your Dockerfile, that way all subsequent commands will be relative to that dir and you wont have to modify anything!
FROM python:latest
WORKDIR /myapp
COPY appfile.py appfile.py
In your docker image, the "appfile.py" file will be in the /myapp/appfily.py location.
You cannot specify the '/' root directory of container but you can mount all the folders in to docker volumes present in root directory.....
create volumes by running these command one by one or you can create bash script
docker volume create var
docker volume create usr
docker volume create tmp
docker volume create sys
docker volume create srv
docker volume create sbin
docker volume create run
docker volume create root
docker volume create proc
docker volume create opt
docker volume create mnt
docker volume create media
docker volume create libx32
docker volume create lib64
docker volume create lib32
docker volume create lib
docker volume create home
docker volume create etc
docker volume create dev
docker volume create boot
docker volume create bin
Then run this command
docker run -it -d \
--name=ubuntu-container \
--mount source=var,destination=/var \
--mount source=usr,destination=/usr \
--mount source=tmp,destination=/tmp \
--mount source=sys,destination=/sys \
--mount source=srv,destination=/srv \
--mount source=sbin,destination=/sbin \
--mount source=run,destination=/run \
--mount source=root,destination=/root \
--mount source=opt,destination=/opt \
--mount source=mnt,destination=/mnt \
--mount source=media,destination=/media \
--mount source=libx32,destination=/libx32 \
--mount source=lib64,destination=/lib64 \
--mount source=lib32,destination=/lib32 \
--mount source=lib,destination=/lib \
--mount source=home,destination=/home \
--mount source=etc,destination=/etc \
--mount source=boot,destination=/boot \
--mount source=bin,destination=/bin \
ubuntu:latest