How specify the size of a shared Docker volume?

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Rox picture Rox · Nov 8, 2016 · Viewed 14.8k times · Source

If I would like to create a data volume of let´s say 15GB that would be of type ext4, how would I do that?

docker volume create --name vol just creates an empty volume.

docker volume create --opt type=ext4 --name vol creates an ext4 volume but I cannot specify the size of it since ext4 does not support it according to the mount options of ext4.

Answer

Rao picture Rao · Nov 9, 2016

It is possible to specify the size limit while creating the docker volume using size as per the documentation

Here is example command provided in the documentation to specify the same

docker volume create -d flocker -o size=20GB my-named-volume

UPDATE Some more examples from git repository:

The built-in local driver on Linux accepts options similar to the linux mount command:
$ docker volume create --driver local --opt type=tmpfs --opt device=tmpfs --opt o=size=100m,uid=1000
Another example:
$ docker volume create --driver local --opt type=btrfs --opt device=/dev/sda2

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