docker volume inspect

volume inspect

Usage: docker volume inspect [OPTIONS] VOLUME [VOLUME...]

Return low-level information on a volume

  -f, --format=       Format the output using the given go template.
  --help              Print usage

Returns information about a volume. By default, this command renders all results in a JSON array. You can specify an alternate format to execute a given template for each result. Go’s text/template package describes all the details of the format.

Example output:

$ docker volume create
85bffb0677236974f93955d8ecc4df55ef5070117b0e53333cc1b443777be24d
$ docker volume inspect 85bffb0677236974f93955d8ecc4df55ef5070117b0e53333cc1b443777be24d
[
  {
      "Name": "85bffb0677236974f93955d8ecc4df55ef5070117b0e53333cc1b443777be24d",
      "Driver": "local",
      "Mountpoint": "/var/lib/docker/volumes/85bffb0677236974f93955d8ecc4df55ef5070117b0e53333cc1b443777be24d/_data"
  }
]

$ docker volume inspect --format '{{ .Mountpoint }}' 85bffb0677236974f93955d8ecc4df55ef5070117b0e53333cc1b443777be24d
/var/lib/docker/volumes/85bffb0677236974f93955d8ecc4df55ef5070117b0e53333cc1b443777be24d/_data

Related information

• volume create
• volume ls
• volume rm
• Understand Data Volumes