Podman : Use External Storage (NFS)

	This is an example to use NFS External Storage.
[1]	NFS server is required to be running on your local network, refer to here. On this example, configure [/home/nfsshare] directory on [nfs.srv.world] as a shared directory.
[2]	Create a volume for NFS and use it.

# create [nfs-volume] volume root@dlp:~# podman volume create \ --opt type=nfs4 \ --opt o=rw \ --opt device=10.0.0.35:/home/nfsshare nfs-volume nfs-volume # display volume list root@dlp:~#  podman volume ls DRIVER VOLUME NAME local nfs-volume # display details of [nfs-volume] root@dlp:~#  podman volume inspect nfs-volume [ { "Name": "nfs-volume", "Driver": "local", "Mountpoint": "/var/lib/containers/storage/volumes/nfs-volume/_data", "CreatedAt": "2025-08-22T09:38:56.374820193+09:00", "Labels": {}, "Scope": "local", "Options": { "device": "10.0.0.35:/home/nfsshare", "o": "rw", "type": "nfs4" }, "MountCount": 0, "NeedsCopyUp": true, "NeedsChown": true, "LockNumber": 12 } ] # run container with mounting [nfs-volume] to [/nfsshare] on container root@dlp:~#  podman run -it -v nfs-volume:/nfsshare debian # verify root@0efc71e368e4:/#  df -hT /nfsshare Filesystem Type Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on 10.0.0.35:/home/nfsshare nfs4 27G 945M 25G 4% /nfsshare root@0efc71e368e4:/#  echo "Podman NFS Volume Test" > /nfsshare/testfile.txt root@0efc71e368e4:/#  cat /nfsshare/testfile.txt Podman NFS Volume Test