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In docker, where is the container data, apart from the mounted volume, is stored till the container is running.
So lets say /usr/local is volume mounted, so it would be shared between the host and the container. Where is everything else stored?
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On a linux system, docker stores data pertaining to images, containers, volumes, etc under /var/lib/docker.
Docker volumes on Windows are always created in the path of the graph driver, which is where Docker stores all image layers, writeable container layers and volumes. By default the root of the graph driver in Windows is C:\ProgramData\docker , but you can mount a volume to a specific directory when you run a container.
Volumes are also stored as part of the host file system, which is managed by Docker. On Linux, volumes are stored in “/var/lib/docker/volume”. Non-Docker processes should not be allowed to modify this part of the file system. One of the best ways to persist data in Docker is Volumes.
You should inspect your docker container
docker inspect [ID_CONTAINER]
and check for the fields MergedDir, LowerDir and UpperDir. Docker uses OverlayFS file system to store the data.
OverlayFS layers two directories on a single Linux host and presents them as a single directory. These directories are called layers and the unification process is referred to a a union mount. OverlayFS refers to the lower directory as lowerdir and the upper directory a upperdir. The unified view is exposed through its own directory called merged.
Check the doc here.
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