command: docker volume inspect short: Display detailed information on one or more volumes long: |- Returns information about a volume. By default, this command renders all results in a JSON array. You can specify an alternate format to execute a given template for each result. Go's [text/template](https://pkg.go.dev/text/template) package describes all the details of the format. usage: docker volume inspect [OPTIONS] VOLUME [VOLUME...] pname: docker volume plink: docker_volume.yaml options: - option: format shorthand: f value_type: string description: |- Format output using a custom template: 'json': Print in JSON format 'TEMPLATE': Print output using the given Go template. Refer to https://docs.docker.com/go/formatting/ for more information about formatting output with templates details_url: '#format' deprecated: false hidden: false experimental: false experimentalcli: false kubernetes: false swarm: false inherited_options: - option: help value_type: bool default_value: "false" description: Print usage deprecated: false hidden: true experimental: false experimentalcli: false kubernetes: false swarm: false examples: |- ```console $ docker volume create myvolume myvolume ``` Use the `docker volume inspect` comment to inspect the configuration of the volume: ```console $ docker volume inspect myvolume ``` The output is in JSON format, for example: ```json [ { "CreatedAt": "2020-04-19T11:00:21Z", "Driver": "local", "Labels": {}, "Mountpoint": "/var/lib/docker/volumes/8140a838303144125b4f54653b47ede0486282c623c3551fbc7f390cdc3e9cf5/_data", "Name": "myvolume", "Options": {}, "Scope": "local" } ] ``` ### Format the output (--format) {#format} Use the `--format` flag to format the output using a Go template, for example, to print the `Mountpoint` property: ```console $ docker volume inspect --format '{{ .Mountpoint }}' myvolume /var/lib/docker/volumes/myvolume/_data ``` deprecated: false hidden: false min_api_version: "1.21" experimental: false experimentalcli: false kubernetes: false swarm: false