Yrurtj

I need to create a persistent volume for Docker. The volume must be named extra-addons and located in /mnt/.

I run this command:

sudo docker volume create /mnt/extra-addons

I got this error message:

Error response from daemon: create /mnt/extra-addons: "/mnt/extra-addons" includes invalid characters for a local volume name, only "[a-zA-Z0-9][a-zA-Z0-9_.-]" are allowed. If you intended to pass a host directory, use absolute path

Note that when I simply run: sudo docker volume create extra-addons, I do not face this problem but when I inspect the volume in question using sudo docker inspect extra-addons, I see it is located in a place I do not want:

[

    {

        "CreatedAt": "2018-04-21T14:40:25+03:00",

        "Driver": "local",

        "Labels": {},

        "Mountpoint": "/var/lib/docker/volumes/extra-addons/_data",

        "Name": "extra-addons",

        "Options": {},

        "Scope": "local"

    }

]

I mean I rather want to see the volume like this: /mnt/extra-addons

Any idea?

I found the solution:

I had to install local-persist plugin.

I had to mount the volume to create to the mount point as follows:

 sudo docker volume create -d local-persist -o mountpoint=/mnt/ --name=extra-addons

Check if I got what I expected:

sudo docker volume inspect extra-addons

Result:

[

    {

        "CreatedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z",

        "Driver": "local-persist",

        "Labels": {},

        "Mountpoint": "/mnt/",

        "Name": "extra-addons",

        "Options": {

            "mountpoint": "/mnt/"

        },

        "Scope": "local"

    }

]

That was what I am looking for.

If you don't want to install any plugins to your docker, I would recommend to create a symbolic link for your volume:

$ docker volume create <myVolume>

$ docker volume inspect <myVolume> 

[

    {

        "CreatedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z",

        "Driver": "local",

        "Labels": {},

        "Mountpoint": "/var/lib/docker/volumes/<myVolume>/_data",

        "Name": "<myVolume>",

        "Options": {},

        "Scope": "local"

    }

]

$ mkdir /mnt/<myVolume>

# if you already have data in your volume, you should copy it to `/mnt/<myVolume>` now

$ sudo rm -rf /var/lib/docker/volumes/<myVolume>/_data

$ sudo ln -s /mnt/<myVolume> /var/lib/docker/volumes/<myVolume>/_data

Now feel free to use your volume as usual (with all your data beeing in /mnt as you wanted)