Create and attach a named volume for persistent podman container storage
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Documented steps
Create a named volume with podman volume create mydata (a random name is generated when none is given).
List and inspect it with podman volume ls and podman volume inspect mydata.
Attach it at run time with podman run -v mydata:/data <image>; named volumes persist across container removal.
Set mount-point ownership at creation with --uid and --gid, or driver options via -o like o=size=2G or o=uid=1000. A tmpfs example: podman volume create --opt device=tmpfs --opt type=tmpfs --opt o=size=2M,nodev,noexec myvol.
Remove unused volumes with podman volume prune and back up or restore with podman volume export and import.
Known gotchas
podman rm --volumes removes only anonymous volumes, never named volumes such as mydata.
The local driver is the default; any other driver value requires a volume plugin defined in the volume_plugins section of containers.conf.
The size and inodes quota options require a backing XFS filesystem mounted with the prjquota flag; otherwise podman errors.
Volume options other than uid and gid on the local driver require root privileges; use the form --opt o=uid=1000 and do not confuse the create -o with a mount -o.
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