podman-mount(1) General Commands Manual podman-mount(1)
NAME
podman-mount - Mount a working container's root filesystem
SYNOPSIS
podman mount [options] [container ...]
podman container mount [options] [container ...]
DESCRIPTION
Mounts the specified containers' root file system in a location which
can be accessed from the host, and returns its location.
Podman lists all of the currently mounted containers, including external
containers, when the command is executed without any arguments. External
containers are containers in container/storage by tools other than Pod-
man. For example Buildah and CRI-O.
Rootless mode only supports mounting VFS driver, unless Podman is run
within the user namespace via the podman unshare command. All other
storage drivers fails to mount.
RETURN VALUE
The location of the mounted file system. On error an empty string and
errno is returned.
OPTIONS
--all, -a
Mount all podman containers. (External containers are not mounted)
--format=format
Print the mounted containers in specified format (json).
--latest, -l
Instead of providing the container name or ID, use the last created con-
tainer. Note: the last started container can be from other users of
Podman on the host machine. (This option is not available with the re-
mote Podman client, including Mac and Windows (excluding WSL2) machines)
--no-trunc
Do not truncate the output (default false).
EXAMPLE
In rootful mode, Mount specified container.
# podman mount c831414b10a3
/var/lib/containers/storage/overlay/f3ac502d97b5681989dff84dfedc8354239bcecbdc2692f9a639f4e080a02364/merged
In rootless mode, container mounting only works from inside the user
namespace.
$ podman unshare
# podman mount affectionate_mcnulty
/home/dwalsh/.local/share/containers/storage/overlay/4218326b9a80619aef005ff95067f76687ad975ce101c176598fb416f6186906/merged
List the currently mounted containers:
podman mount
c831414b10a3 /var/lib/containers/storage/overlay/f3ac502d97b5681989dff84dfedc8354239bcecbdc2692f9a639f4e080a02364/merged
a7060253093b /var/lib/containers/storage/overlay/0ff7d7ca68bed1ace424f9df154d2dd7b5a125c19d887f17653cbcd5b6e30ba1/merged
Mount multiple containers:
podman mount c831414b10a3 a7060253093b
/var/lib/containers/storage/overlay/f3ac502d97b5681989dff84dfedc8354239bcecbdc2692f9a639f4e080a02364/merged
/var/lib/containers/storage/overlay/0ff7d7ca68bed1ace424f9df154d2dd7b5a125c19d887f17653cbcd5b6e30ba1/merged
SEE ALSO
podman(1), podman-unmount(1), podman-unshare(1), mount(8)
podman-mount(1)
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