Docker not mounting host files

Question

I'm trying to use a docker image from here to start setting up a datascience set up. I can get docker to mount the container using

docker run -d --privileged=true -p 8888:8888 --name ipyn3 -v /home/repos/DoSomeData/:/home/ds/notebooks/ dataquestio/python3-starter

where the host directory "DoSomeData" contains a single folder at the moment "Hillary_Emails" which contains a directory of input data and a single iPython Notebook file.

When I go into ipython notebook, it can see the "Hillary_Emails" directory but nothing else. This is also the case when I log into the container using Bash and run ls. It appears to only be copying over the directory. Running docker inspect ipyn3 gives

[
{
    "Id": "b1cbba654135d46170e78c8ac522601ee743e1b1d3959b10fc7784c57c696433",
    "Created": "2016-03-14T20:20:24.413863418Z",
    "Path": "/home/ds/run_ipython.sh",
    "Args": [],
    "State": {
        "Status": "running",
        "Running": true,
        "Paused": false,
        "Restarting": false,
        "OOMKilled": false,
        "Dead": false,
        "Pid": 7629,
        "ExitCode": 0,
        "Error": "",
        "StartedAt": "2016-03-14T20:20:25.344852732Z",
        "FinishedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z"
    },
    "Image": "sha256:3cccab0c85e256d355fd7facbf3b897363bb72f7089ce7d65c54fe55b69ea25d",
    "ResolvConfPath": "/var/lib/docker/containers/b1cbba654135d46170e78c8ac522601ee743e1b1d3959b10fc7784c57c696433/resolv.conf",
    "HostnamePath": "/var/lib/docker/containers/b1cbba654135d46170e78c8ac522601ee743e1b1d3959b10fc7784c57c696433/hostname",
    "HostsPath": "/var/lib/docker/containers/b1cbba654135d46170e78c8ac522601ee743e1b1d3959b10fc7784c57c696433/hosts",
    "LogPath": "/var/lib/docker/containers/b1cbba654135d46170e78c8ac522601ee743e1b1d3959b10fc7784c57c696433/b1cbba654135d46170e78c8ac522601ee743e1b1d3959b10fc7784c57c696433-json.log",
    "Name": "/ipyn3",
    "RestartCount": 0,
    "Driver": "devicemapper",
    "MountLabel": "",
    "ProcessLabel": "",
    "AppArmorProfile": "",
    "ExecIDs": null,
    "HostConfig": {
        "Binds": [
            "/home/repos/DoSomeData/:/home/ds/notebooks/"
        ],
        "ContainerIDFile": "",
        "LogConfig": {
            "Type": "json-file",
            "Config": {}
        },
        "NetworkMode": "default",
        "PortBindings": {
            "8888/tcp": [
                {
                    "HostIp": "",
                    "HostPort": "8888"
                }
            ]
        },
        "RestartPolicy": {
            "Name": "no",
            "MaximumRetryCount": 0
        },
        "VolumeDriver": "",
        "VolumesFrom": null,
        "CapAdd": null,
        "CapDrop": null,
        "Dns": [],
        "DnsOptions": [],
        "DnsSearch": [],
        "ExtraHosts": null,
        "GroupAdd": null,
        "IpcMode": "",
        "Links": null,
        "OomScoreAdj": 0,
        "PidMode": "",
        "Privileged": true,
        "PublishAllPorts": false,
        "ReadonlyRootfs": false,
        "SecurityOpt": null,
        "UTSMode": "",
        "ShmSize": 67108864,
        "ConsoleSize": [
            0,
            0
        ],
        "Isolation": "",
        "CpuShares": 0,
        "CgroupParent": "",
        "BlkioWeight": 0,
        "BlkioWeightDevice": null,
        "BlkioDeviceReadBps": null,
        "BlkioDeviceWriteBps": null,
        "BlkioDeviceReadIOps": null,
        "BlkioDeviceWriteIOps": null,
        "CpuPeriod": 0,
        "CpuQuota": 0,
        "CpusetCpus": "",
        "CpusetMems": "",
        "Devices": [],
        "KernelMemory": 0,
        "Memory": 0,
        "MemoryReservation": 0,
        "MemorySwap": 0,
        "MemorySwappiness": -1,
        "OomKillDisable": false,
        "PidsLimit": 0,
        "Ulimits": null
    },
    "GraphDriver": {
        "Name": "devicemapper",
        "Data": {
            "DeviceId": "57",
            "DeviceName": "docker-253:0-2228497-91a65d788ceb1e1ed5a1ec339d19ba8de24ec574fad57982f6d939ec572df526",
            "DeviceSize": "10737418240"
        }
    },
    "Mounts": [
        {
            "Source": "/home/repos/DoSomeData",
            "Destination": "/home/ds/notebooks",
            "Mode": "",
            "RW": true,
            "Propagation": "rprivate"
        }
    ],
    "Config": {
        "Hostname": "b1cbba654135",
        "Domainname": "",
        "User": "ds",
        "AttachStdin": false,
        "AttachStdout": false,
        "AttachStderr": false,
        "ExposedPorts": {
            "8888/tcp": {}
        },
        "Tty": false,
        "OpenStdin": false,
        "StdinOnce": false,
        "Env": [
            "PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin",
            "TERM=xterm",
            "LANG=en_US.UTF-8",
            "HOME=/home/ds",
            "SHELL=/bin/bash",
            "USER=ds"
        ],
        "Cmd": [
            "/home/ds/run_ipython.sh"
        ],
        "Image": "dataquestio/python3-starter",
        "Volumes": {
            "/home/ds/notebooks": {}
        },
        "WorkingDir": "/home/ds/notebooks",
        "Entrypoint": null,
        "OnBuild": null,
        "Labels": {},
        "StopSignal": "SIGTERM"
    },
    "NetworkSettings": {
        "Bridge": "",
        "SandboxID": "84a7df65aa857432cc7bfcb7c28016eb40eee10c9a6eaf30c46fec3b69f2f673",
        "HairpinMode": false,
        "LinkLocalIPv6Address": "",
        "LinkLocalIPv6PrefixLen": 0,
        "Ports": {
            "8888/tcp": [
                {
                    "HostIp": "0.0.0.0",
                    "HostPort": "8888"
                }
            ]
        },
        "SandboxKey": "/var/run/docker/netns/84a7df65aa85",
        "SecondaryIPAddresses": null,
        "SecondaryIPv6Addresses": null,
        "EndpointID": "c8fe87fc450a97422439751ae1400f44c28656a81375788be214d4b5c7b70686",
        "Gateway": "172.17.0.1",
        "GlobalIPv6Address": "",
        "GlobalIPv6PrefixLen": 0,
        "IPAddress": "172.17.0.2",
        "IPPrefixLen": 16,
        "IPv6Gateway": "",
        "MacAddress": "02:42:ac:11:00:02",
        "Networks": {
            "bridge": {
                "IPAMConfig": null,
                "Links": null,
                "Aliases": null,
                "NetworkID": "7c709634cd55286747ac4080457e57290db1cdc774d290f59727436223ecf08a",
                "EndpointID": "c8fe87fc450a97422439751ae1400f44c28656a81375788be214d4b5c7b70686",
                "Gateway": "172.17.0.1",
                "IPAddress": "172.17.0.2",
                "IPPrefixLen": 16,
                "IPv6Gateway": "",
                "GlobalIPv6Address": "",
                "GlobalIPv6PrefixLen": 0,
                "MacAddress": "02:42:ac:11:00:02"
            }
        }
    }
}
]

Does anyone know what is causing this? I'm running Fedora23 and this is the first time I've tried using docker containers. Is it something to do with how permissions are propagating?

Thanks

Answer 1

I ran docker inspect ipyn3 when it was working. Issue was that the source path needed my username after host i.e.

\home\user_name\repos\DoSomeData