Docker: Unable to find volume real location

Question

I'm creating a Docker container with the following command:

docker run -v /data -d ubuntu

Afterwards I try to find out the real location of the volume with:

docker inspect 12345678

and it shows that it's in /var/lib/docker/volumes/0ef2ed2715456b767fe52d38a316074c3da4a6fa82e4e42e5595c8dd8b5f0440/_data ls: /var/lib/docker/volumes/0ef2ed2715456----/_data:

But I don't actually have a /var/lib/docker directory.

What am I missing?

I'm using Docker 1.12 on Mac.

Client:
 Version:      1.12.1
 API version:  1.24
 Go version:   go1.7.1
 Git commit:   6f9534c
 Built:        Thu Sep  8 10:31:18 2016
 OS/Arch:      darwin/amd64

Server:
 Version:      1.12.1
 API version:  1.24
 Go version:   go1.6.3
 Git commit:   23cf638
 Built:        Thu Aug 18 17:52:38 2016
 OS/Arch:      linux/amd64

Docker for Mac is virtualized. The disk image location is noted in this answer. http://stackoverflow.com/a/37642236/2308683 — OneCricketeer, Oct 16 '16 at 08:24

score 2 · Accepted Answer · edited May 23 '17 at 12:00

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Docker on Mac runs a docker engine in a Linux VM, not your Mac OS, so you can't find the volume's mount point in your Mac OS file system. Please check my answer in this question: Docker Named Volume location Mac

edited May 23 '17 at 12:00

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answered Oct 16 '16 at 18:23

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