download to mount drives?

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How can I allow docker manga-py to download to a mounted drive, I'm still new to docker but I was able to run docker manga-py successfully and download some manga to my /home/ directory as well as other directories within /home//, But I would really like it to download to /mnt/drive1/books but all my attempts are getting me "Permission denied".

what I'm running in cli
docker run -it -v ${PWD}:/home/ mangadl/manga-py -d /mnt/drive1/books

Thanks in advance.

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Hi. Check this https://docs.docker.com/storage/bind-mounts/

You can use -v for docker

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thanks for your reply

Ok I tried the following in cli:

1. docker run -it -v "${PWD}"/mnt/drive1/books:/home/[user] mangadl/manga-py [URL]
   This downloaded nothing but in my home folder/directory it created new folders instead
2. docker run -it -v "${PWD}"/mnt/drive1/books:/home/[user] mangadl/manga-py [URL] -d /mnt/drive1/books
   still getting permission denied
3. docker run -it -v /mnt/drive1/books mangadl/manga-py [URL]
   This downloaded nothing again it even showed the progress bar, no permission error
4. docker run -it -v ${PWD}:/home/[user] mangadl/manga-py -d /home/[user]/manga
   this is the only one that works but it downloads in the home/[user] folder and folders within [user] when using -d but I want it to download to the mounted drive

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Try this:

docker run -it -v /mnt/drive1/books:/home/[user] mangadl/manga-py [URL]

This will create a Manga directory inside /mnt/drive1/books (i.e. /mnt/drive1/books/Manga)

Or:

docker run -it -v /mnt/drive1/books:/tmp/mdl mangadl/manga-py -d /tmp/mdl/Manga [URL]

will be the same result

P.S. The second option will not create additional files for you in the directory (configs)

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Thank you the second option works nicely, I'm also thankful the fast response.