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Docker Container mount to a mysteric folder which I don't know where is it.

Env:  Ubuntu 20.04  When install too many versions of docker on the same machine,  it could have a weird mount behavior. I have a folder called /media/xxx/uuid/prod/db, hereafter, "local db folder".   and I mount this folder to the /db folder inside container, hereafter "container db folder".    I start container like this:  docker run --rm --mount type=bind,source=/media/xxx/uuid/prod/db,target=/db image:latest As you can expected, something happened. the container was  up and running.  the mount seemed not right. If I add a new file to the local db folder , the new file was not available in container db folder ,  and vice versa,  if I add a new file to the container db folder ,  the file wasn't available in the local db folder either.   Looks like the local db folder and container db folder wasn't mapped.   Run docker inspect, I could see the mount configure was correct, from  /media/xxx/uuid/prod/db to /db However, if I stopped the container, and create