Documentation about automatic bind-mount dir creation
Docker-DCO-1.1-Signed-off-by: Maxime Petazzoni (github: mpetazzoni)
@@ -1098,6 +1098,15 @@ working directory, by changing into the directory to the value
returned by ``pwd``. So this combination executes the command
using the container, but inside the current working directory.
+.. code-block:: bash
+
+ $ sudo docker run -v /dont/exist:/foo -w /foo -i -t ubuntu bash
+
+When the host directory of a bind-mounted volume doesn't exist, Docker
+will automatically create this directory on the host for you. In the
+example above, Docker will create the ``/dont/exist`` folder before
+starting your container.
+
.. code-block:: bash
$ sudo docker run -p 127.0.0.1:80:8080 ubuntu bash
