Documented steps

Create a named volume: `podman volume create [options] [name]` — a random name is generated if none given.
Attach a named volume to a container: `podman run -v myvol:/data myapp` (persists across container replacement; default `copy` copies image files into the new volume on first use).
Set metadata: `podman volume create --label env=prod myvol`; each `--opt`/`-o` sets a driver-specific option.
The `local` driver (default) uses a directory on disk; you can mount a real filesystem by passing `--opt type=... --opt device=... --opt o=...` (e.g. tmpfs with a size cap).
Set volume ownership UIDs/GIDs: `podman volume create --uid 1000 --gid 1000 myvol` (works on the mount point directory).
Use an image-backed volume: `podman volume create --driver image --opt image=fedora:latest fedoraVol` (changes can be committed as a layer).
Inspect volume options/labels: `podman volume inspect myvol`; list: `podman volume ls`.
Official docs: https://docs.podman.io/en/latest/markdown/podman-volume-create.1.html

Known gotchas

Don't confuse `--opt,-o` with a mount option: pass mounting as `--opt o=uid=1000`, NOT `--opt uid=1000`.
Size/inode quotas rely on XFS project quotas — the volume storage dir must be an XFS filesystem mounted with pquota/prjquota or podman errors out.
Non-UID/GID volume options with the local driver require root privileges.
--ignore won't fail if the volume exists, but new options are NOT applied to an existing volume.
podman rm --volumes removes only anonymous volumes, never named ones — clean named volumes with `podman volume rm`.
Volume plugin drivers must be defined in the volume_plugins section of containers.conf.

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