How to mount a windows folder in docker container?

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On my windows notebook I try to share a folder with my docker container, but I am getting a weird error message that does not tell me anything.

docker run -p 9999:9999 -it msmint/msmint:latest -v c:/Users/swacker/MINT:/data/

docker: Error response from daemon: OCI runtime create failed: container_linux.go:380: starting container process caused: exec: "-v": executable file not found in $PATH: unknown.

The /data folder in the docker file is present and I gried different formats for the windows path such as C:\User\swacker\MINT.

It complains that an executable file is not found, but I don't know which one.

Hans Kilian · Accepted Answer · 2022-06-10 18:13:58Z

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Options for docker need to go before the image name. Anything after the image name is a command for the container and replaces any defined CMD in the image.

So you need to do

docker run -p 9999:9999 -it -v c:\Users\swacker\MINT:/data/ msmint/msmint:latest

I've changed the slashes in your Windows path to backslashes.

answered Jun 10, 2022 at 18:13

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George Udosen Over a year ago

Is this for a Windows machine or Linux machine?

Hans Kilian Over a year ago

@GeorgeUdosen It's for a Windows machine. It'll be similar for Linux, but you have to use a Linux path instead of c:\Users\swacker\MINT. The path has to be absolute, so you can't use relative paths like ..

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