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| Description | Display detailed information on one or more volumes | | Usage | docker volume inspect [OPTIONS] VOLUME [VOLUME...] |

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.

Options ​

OptionDefaultDescription
-f, --formatFormat output using a custom template:<br>'json': Print in JSON format<br>'TEMPLATE': Print output using the given Go template.<br>Refer to https://docs.docker.com/go/formatting/ for more information about formatting output with templates

Examples ​

console
$ docker volume create myvolume

myvolume

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

console
$ docker volume inspect myvolume

The output is in JSON format, for example:

json
[\
  {\
    "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:

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

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