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podman-image-mount(1)() podman-image-mount(1)()

podman-image-mount - Mount an image's root filesystem

podman image mount [options] [image ...]

Mounts the specified images' root file system in a location which can be accessed from the host, and returns its location.

If you execute the command without any arguments, Podman will list all of the currently mounted images.

Rootless mode only supports mounting VFS driver, unless you enter the user namespace via the podman unshare command. All other storage drivers will fail to mount.

The location of the mounted file system. On error an empty string and errno is returned.

--all, -a

Mount all images.

--format=format

Print the mounted images in specified format (json).

podman image mount fedora ubi8-init
/var/lib/containers/storage/overlay/f3ac502d97b5681989dff84dfedc8354239bcecbdc2692f9a639f4e080a02364/merged
/var/lib/containers/storage/overlay/0ff7d7ca68bed1ace424f9df154d2dd7b5a125c19d887f17653cbcd5b6e30ba1/merged

podman mount
registry.fedoraproject.org/fedora:latest /var/lib/containers/storage/overlay/f3ac502d97b5681989dff84dfedc8354239bcecbdc2692f9a639f4e080a02364/merged
registry.access.redhat.com/ubi8-init:latest /var/lib/containers/storage/overlay/0ff7d7ca68bed1ace424f9df154d2dd7b5a125c19d887f17653cbcd5b6e30ba1/merged

podman image mount --format json
[

{
"id": "00ff39a8bf19f810a7e641f7eb3ddc47635913a19c4996debd91fafb6b379069",
"Names": [
"sha256:58de585a231aca14a511347bc85b912a6f000159b49bc2b0582032911e5d3a6c"
],
"Repositories": [
"registry.fedoraproject.org/fedora:latest"
],
"mountpoint": "/var/lib/containers/storage/overlay/0ccfac04663bbe8813b5f24502ee0b7371ce5bf3c5adeb12e4258d191c2cf7bc/merged"
},
{
"id": "bcc2dc9a261774ad25a15e07bb515f9b77424266abf2a1252ec7bcfed1dd0ac2",
"Names": [
"sha256:d5f260b2e51b3ee9d05de1c31d261efc9af28e7d2d47cedf054c496d71424d63"
],
"Repositories": [
"registry.access.redhat.com/ubi8-init:latest"
],
"mountpoint": "/var/lib/containers/storage/overlay/d66b58e3391ea8ce4c81316c72e22b332618f2a28b461a32ed673e8998cdaeb8/merged"
} ]

podman(1), podman-image-umount(1), mount(8), podman-unshare(1)