Docker for Windows Error Can t call chown inside Docker container

Question

I am trying to use the Mongo dockerfile to boot up a database, I use the -v command to map a local directory to the data inside the container.

This is how I’m doing it:

RUN mkdir -p /data/db /data/configdb \
    && chown -R mongodb:mongodb /data/db /data/configdb
VOLUME /data/db /data/configdb

But unfortunately I get the following error:

chown: changing ownership of '/data/db': Permission denied

Can someone help me out with this?

Answer 1

I’ve come across a similar issue, try the below command, it should work:

docker run --name mongo -p 27017:27017 -v /var/lib/boot2docker/my-mongodb-data/:/data/d