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Yes you can add same location as a volume to many docker containers. Additionally you can use --volumes-from to mount your log directory in one container not actually running any application and then use the volumes from this container in your other containers without having to repeat the paths everywhere.
Cloning From An Existing Container But, if you do need to add a volume to a running container, you can use docker commit to make a new image based on that container, and then clone it with the new volume. Then, you can run the new image, replacing the old image with the cloned one.
To mount a data volume to a container add the --mount flag to the docker run command. It adds the volume to the specified container, where it stores the data produced inside the virtual environment. Replace [path_in_container] with the path where you want to place the data volume in the container.
The most notable difference between the two options is that --mount is more verbose and explicit, whereas -v is more of a shorthand for --mount . It combines all the options you pass to --mount into one field. On the surface, both commands create a PostgreSQL container and set a volume to persist data.
Pass multiple -v arguments.
For instance:
docker -v /on/my/host/1:/on/the/container/1 \
-v /on/my/host/2:/on/the/container/2 \
...
Docker now recommends migrating towards using --mount.
Multiple volume mounts are also explained in detail in the current Docker documentation.
From: https://docs.docker.com/storage/bind-mounts/
$ docker run -d \
-it \
--name devtest \
--mount type=bind,source="$(pwd)"/target,target=/app \
--mount type=bind,source="$(pwd)"/target,target=/app2,readonly,bind-propagation=rslave \
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Original older answer should still work; just trying to keep the answer aligned to current best known method.
You can use -v option multiple times in docker run command to mount multiple directory in container:
docker run -t -i \
-v '/on/my/host/test1:/on/the/container/test1' \
-v '/on/my/host/test2:/on/the/container/test2' \
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You can have Read only or Read and Write only on the volume
docker -v /on/my/host/1:/on/the/container/1:ro \
docker -v /on/my/host/2:/on/the/container/2:rw \
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