How to navigate to docker volumes folders on the host machine

Question

I'm trying to find out where VOLUME "/shared" is mapped to (Mac) and how to navigate to it on the host machine

I run

docker run -it --volume /shared ubuntu:latest /bin/bash

Then I inspect where it's mapped to:

docker inspect d2e17f3d3bb4

And see the excerpt from the config:

"Mounts": [
    {
        "Type": "volume",
        "Name": "fb7ace0b18153bdad1744f0ac18eadc3775929dd5f448ebb228e7130f86c1a19",
        "Source": "/var/lib/docker/volumes/fb7ace0b18153bdad1744f0ac18eadc3775929dd5f448ebb228e7130f86c1a19/_data",
        "Destination": "/shared",
        "Driver": "local",
        "Mode": "",
        "RW": true,
        "Propagation": ""
    }

And there is not such folder on the host machine:

/var/lib/docker/volumes/fb7ace0b18153bdad1744f0ac18eadc3775929dd5f448ebb228e7130f86c1a19/_data

Not even /var/lib/docker/volumes

/var/lib/docker doesn't exist

Edited:

Thanks to @BMitch

The answer is

Docker VM is located at

~/Library/Containers/com.docker.docker/Data/com.docker.driver.amd64-linux/Docker.qcow2

Navigate to the VM

screen ~/Library/Containers/com.docker.docker/Data/com.docker.driver.amd64-linux/tty

Within the tty one can navigate to /var/lib/docker and docker volumes

`$ cd /var/lib/docker && sudo ls`, Dosn't it still show `volumes` dir? — SangminKim, Apr 22 '18 at 13:13
What is `$DOCKER_HOST` set to, what type of docker install (Linux, Mac, Windows), and are you root? — BMitch, Apr 22 '18 at 13:15
@BMitch Thank you a lot about a link, the question is the same but the output not quite the same, the answer in the link didn't include how one can navigate to the specified folders — Dmitry Dyachkov, Apr 23 '18 at 13:44
Please update your question to show how you're facing a problem not answered in the duplicate question and tag me so I can submit to have this reopened. Thanks. — BMitch, Apr 23 '18 at 13:53

How to navigate to docker volumes folders on the host machine

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