Wednesday, March 3, 2021

Docker for Mac: Could not find ~/Library/Containers/com.docker.docker/Data/vms/0/tty to access volume location

Symptom:

If we want to access the volume location on the host machine, we normally inspect the volume to get the location on the host machine:

$ docker volume inspect todo-db|grep Mountpoint
"Mountpoint": "/var/lib/docker/volumes/todo-db/_data",

For Linux host machine, it is straightforward. 

But for Mac, the Docker commands are running inside a small VM. So we normally use below command to login Docker's VM on Mac firstly:

screen ~/Library/Containers/com.docker.docker/Data/vms/0/tty

However in latest Docker Desktop for Mac version,  "tty" does not exist so it will fail to login.

Env:

Docker Desktop for Mac 20.10.3

MacOS Catalina

Root Cause:

This issue is recorded as a bug
This stackoverflow discussion though this issue is since version 2.3.0.4 of Docker Desktop for Mac.

Solution:

Below the issue is fixed, use below workaround instead:

docker run -it --privileged --pid=host debian nsenter -t 1 -m -u -n -i sh

And then we can see the volume location on host:

/ # ls -altr /var/lib/docker/volumes/todo-db/_data
total 16
drwx-----x 3 root root 4096 Mar 3 21:40 ..
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 8192 Mar 3 21:42 todo.db
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Mar 3 21:42 .


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