Browse docker volumes
I am new to Unraid (setting up for the first time today!) and fairly new to docker - so please excuse the basic question.
Just wanted to see if there was a way to 'browse' docker volumes graphically? One of my containers has a config file that I would ideally like to be able to edit on my windows PC and then drop it into the container volume rather than trying to edit it in the console.
I tried doing this through portainer... which shows all the relevant volumes, but I just can't browse them. Had previously run docker in windows which mounted Volumes to a folder on the drive that was accessible in Windows - so hoping something similar would be done in Unraid.
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Have you installed Krusader?
I've copied a yaml config file to a share I export and then copied it to my windows pc for editing before
Install the "Code Server" docker container.
Midnight Commander is already bundled with unraid and is awesome. Click the open terminal button and type "mc" and hit enter.
You could mount the share appdata using samba, which should contain the config file you are looking for. Full path is by default /mnt/user/appdata
/mnt/user/appdata/<name-of-app>In the appdata folder if you use the dynamix file manager plugin (very useful for quickly transferring files between shares) you should be able to find what you are looking for. Install through the app store and click on the file you want to edit, most can be done straight through the webui and saved.
Are you talking actual docker volumes, or directories mounted to a path inside the container?
If it’s the first, you’d have to spin up another container accessing the same volume as you want to edit files inside, with the tools needed.
If it’s the latter, Dynamic File Manager should get you sorted.
unraid uses a share called appdata.
to access appdata you can go to the "shares" tab in unraid. Then edit the "appdata" share, and enable SMB: Export and this will create a windows network shared folder on the network that you can access using windows file explorer.