Mount host directory with a symbolic link inside in docker container

Question

I mounted the container with this parameter:

-v /home/test/:/home/test

Inside /home/test in the host there is a symbolic link po

Answer 1

One solution is to make Docker mount the original file, but use readlink -f which prints the file's actual location. This way, you can still reference the symlink location in your command, e.g.

docker run -it -v $(readlink -f /home/test/):/home/test/ ...