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How to persist plugins and similar stuff when using Docker?

See original GitHub issue

Just a small question:

The README explains that one has to mount /root/project as a host directory (or volume) to have a place to save their projects. Now i’d like to know where in the container the installed plugins, themes and VS Code settings are stored, so that i could mount it to a host directory (or volume) as well, to preserve installed plugins during container recreations.

I assume this is where -d, --data-dir initially points to, but where is that? If i just specify another folder and mount it, is code able to start up if this directory doesn’t exist? If i mount an initally empty host directory to this path, will code be able to start up, not having problems with the folder’s emptiness?

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Created 5 years ago
Comments:5 (3 by maintainers)

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kylecarbscommented, Mar 12, 2019

We’ll be fixing this so binaries extract to a temporary location. Then you’ll be able to share the data-dir

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kylecarbscommented, Apr 24, 2019

Everything now extracts to a tmp dir, mounting extensions should work! 🎊

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