docker volume inspect

Display detailed information on one or more volumes

Usage

$ docker volume inspect [OPTIONS] VOLUME [VOLUME...]

Refer to the options section for an overview of available OPTIONS for this command.

Description

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.

For example uses of this command, refer to the examples section below.

Options

Name, shorthand	Default	Description
`--format` , `-f`		Format output using a custom template: ‘json’: Print in JSON format ‘TEMPLATE’: Print output using the given Go template. Refer to https://docs.docker.com/go/formatting/ for more information about formatting output with templates

Examples

$ docker volume create myvolume

myvolume

Use the docker volume inspect comment to inspect the configuration of the volume:

$ docker volume inspect myvolume

The output is in JSON format, for example:

[
  {
    "CreatedAt": "2020-04-19T11:00:21Z",
    "Driver": "local",
    "Labels": {},
    "Mountpoint": "/var/lib/docker/volumes/8140a838303144125b4f54653b47ede0486282c623c3551fbc7f390cdc3e9cf5/_data",
    "Name": "myvolume",
    "Options": {},
    "Scope": "local"
  }
]

Format the output (--format)

Use the --format flag to format the output using a Go template, for example, to print the Mountpoint property:

$ docker volume inspect --format '{{ .Mountpoint }}' myvolume

/var/lib/docker/volumes/myvolume/_data

Parent command

Command	Description
docker volume	Manage volumes

Command	Description
docker volume create	Create a volume
docker volume inspect	Display detailed information on one or more volumes
docker volume ls	List volumes
docker volume prune	Remove all unused local volumes
docker volume rm	Remove one or more volumes
docker volume update	Update a volume (cluster volumes only)