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 Podman.  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
       container.  Note: the last started container can be from other users of
       Podman on the host machine.  (This option is not available with the
       remote 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)

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