podman-volume-inspect(1)

💖 podman-volume-inspect(1) 💖

okay bestie, welcome to the podman-volume-inspect page from the General Commands Manual — yes she's a real one, and she's about to spill all the tea on your volumes ✨

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🌸 NAME 🌸

podman-volume-inspect — get the full 411 on one volume, or a whole squad of them 🫶

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

podman volume inspect [options] volume [...]

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

So like, this command shows you the detailed info on one or more volumes. The output can be formatted with the --format flag and a Go template, which is giving customizable main character energy 💅

Wanna know about every single volume that exists? Use the --all flag, periodt.

And you can query volumes one at a time by handing over their full name — or a unique partial name if you're feeling lazy but still correct. No cap.

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🎀 OPTIONS 🎀

• --all, -a — inspect every single volume, all of them, the whole friend group 🔥
• --format, -f=format — format the volume output using a Go template ✨

The valid placeholders for the Go template are listed below, bestie, memorize them iykyk:

• .Anonymous — indicates whether the volume is anonymous
• .CreatedAt ... — volume creation time
• .Driver — volume driver
• .GID — GID the volume was created with
• .Labels ... — label information associated with the volume
• .LockNumber — number of the volume's Libpod lock
• .MountCount — number of times the volume is mounted
• .Mountpoint — source of volume mount point
• .Name — volume name
• .NeedsChown — indicates volume will be chowned on next use
• .NeedsCopyUp — indicates data at the destination will be copied into the volume on next use
• .Options ... — volume options
• .Scope — volume scope
• .Status ... — status of the volume
• .StorageID — StorageID of the volume
• .Timeout — timeout of the volume
• .UID — UID the volume was created with

• --help — print usage statement 🫶

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🌈 EXAMPLES 🌈

Inspect named volume.

$ podman volume inspect myvol
[
     {
          "Name": "myvol",
          "Driver": "local",
          "Mountpoint": "/home/myusername/.local/share/containers/storage/volumes/myvol/_data",
          "CreatedAt": "2023-03-13T16:26:48.423069028-04:00",
          "Labels": {},
          "Scope": "local",
          "Options": {},
          "MountCount": 0,
          "NeedsCopyUp": true,
          "NeedsChown": true
     }
]

Inspect all volumes.

$ podman volume inspect --all
[
     {
          "Name": "myvol",
          "Driver": "local",
          "Mountpoint": "/home/myusername/.local/share/containers/storage/volumes/myvol/_data",
          "CreatedAt": "2023-03-13T16:26:48.423069028-04:00",
          "Labels": {},
          "Scope": "local",
          "Options": {},
          "MountCount": 0,
          "NeedsCopyUp": true,
          "NeedsChown": true
     }
]

Inspect named volume and display its Driver and Scope field.

$ podman volume inspect --format "{{.Driver}} {{.Scope}}" myvol
local local

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👑 SEE ALSO 👑

podman(1), podman-volume(1), podman-inspect(1)

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💜 HISTORY 💜

November 2018, originally compiled by Urvashi Mohnani umohnani@redhat.com ⟨mailto:umohnani@redhat.com⟩ — iconic, we stan a documentation queen 👑

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and that's the whole page babes 🍓 tysm for reading, this was the General Commands Manual edition of podman-volume-inspect(1), born way back in November 2018 and still slaying to this day. go inspect something, you deserve it 🧚💖