github.com/flavio/docker@v0.1.3-0.20170117145210-f63d1a6eec47/docs/reference/commandline/volume_inspect.md (about) 1 --- 2 title: "volume inspect" 3 description: "The volume inspect command description and usage" 4 keywords: "volume, inspect" 5 --- 6 7 <!-- This file is maintained within the docker/docker Github 8 repository at https://github.com/docker/docker/. Make all 9 pull requests against that repo. If you see this file in 10 another repository, consider it read-only there, as it will 11 periodically be overwritten by the definitive file. Pull 12 requests which include edits to this file in other repositories 13 will be rejected. 14 --> 15 16 # volume inspect 17 18 ```markdown 19 Usage: docker volume inspect [OPTIONS] VOLUME [VOLUME...] 20 21 Display detailed information on one or more volumes 22 23 Options: 24 -f, --format string Format the output using the given Go template 25 --help Print usage 26 ``` 27 28 Returns information about a volume. By default, this command renders all results 29 in a JSON array. You can specify an alternate format to execute a 30 given template for each result. Go's 31 [text/template](http://golang.org/pkg/text/template/) package describes all the 32 details of the format. 33 34 Example output: 35 36 $ docker volume create 37 85bffb0677236974f93955d8ecc4df55ef5070117b0e53333cc1b443777be24d 38 $ docker volume inspect 85bffb0677236974f93955d8ecc4df55ef5070117b0e53333cc1b443777be24d 39 [ 40 { 41 "Name": "85bffb0677236974f93955d8ecc4df55ef5070117b0e53333cc1b443777be24d", 42 "Driver": "local", 43 "Mountpoint": "/var/lib/docker/volumes/85bffb0677236974f93955d8ecc4df55ef5070117b0e53333cc1b443777be24d/_data", 44 "Status": null 45 } 46 ] 47 48 {% raw %} 49 $ docker volume inspect --format '{{ .Mountpoint }}' 85bffb0677236974f93955d8ecc4df55ef5070117b0e53333cc1b443777be24d 50 /var/lib/docker/volumes/85bffb0677236974f93955d8ecc4df55ef5070117b0e53333cc1b443777be24d/_data 51 {% endraw %} 52 53 ## Related information 54 55 * [volume create](volume_create.md) 56 * [volume ls](volume_ls.md) 57 * [volume rm](volume_rm.md) 58 * [volume prune](volume_prune.md) 59 * [Understand Data Volumes](https://docs.docker.com/engine/tutorials/dockervolumes/)