how to mount a share path for the big dataset in windows os.

Hi, I am sorry for a noob question but I want to know how to mount a shared path for the big dataset. I tried to follow the documentation on the Share Path

version: "2.3"

services:
  cvat:
    environment:
      CVAT_SHARE_URL: "Mounted from /mnt/share host directory"
    volumes:
      - cvat_share:/home/django/share:ro

volumes:
  cvat_share:
    driver_opts:
      type: none
      device: /mnt/share
      o: bind

but I am getting this error while building

$ docker-compose -f docker-compose.yml -f docker-compose.override.yml -f components/openvino/docker-compose.openvino.yml -f cvat/apps/dextr_segm
entation/docker-compose.dextr.yml  -f components/auto_segmentation/docker-compose.auto_segmentation.yml -f components/tf_annotation/docker-compo
se.tf_annotation.yml -f components/analytics/docker-compose.analytics.yml up -d

WARNING: The no_proxy variable is not set. Defaulting to a blank string.
WARNING: The http_proxy variable is not set. Defaulting to a blank string.
WARNING: The https_proxy variable is not set. Defaulting to a blank string.
cvat_redis is up-to-date
cvat_db is up-to-date
cvat_elasticsearch is up-to-date
cvat_kibana is up-to-date
cvat_logstash is up-to-date
Creating cvat ... error                                                                                                                          
ERROR: for cvat  Cannot create container for service cvat: failed to mount local volume: mount /mnt/share:/var/lib/docker/volumes/cvat_cvat_share/_data, flags: 0x1000: no such file or directory

ERROR: for cvat  Cannot create container for service cvat: failed to mount local volume: mount /mnt/share:/var/lib/docker/volumes/cvat_cvat_share/_data, flags: 0x1000: no such file or directory
ERROR: Encountered errors while bringing up the project.

Docker version Client: Docker Engine - Community Version: 19.03.8 API version: 1.40 Go version: go1.12.17 Git commit: afacb8b Built: Wed Mar 11 01:23:10 2020 OS/Arch: windows/amd64 Experimental: true

I also tried to post my problem on Gitter no reply **what procedure do I need to follow to work this out please help me. **

[ronzhin-dmitry]

Hi, I am using Windows. If I want to cvat to connect local directory at C:\mnt\share Then I should not change anything in override.yml file copied in the guide right? But it still doesnt connect. What am I missing here? It has been frustrating

Hello! I’m having similar issues, I cannot mount directory in docker from WSL. Here are some illustrations of how this whole process looks like:

Did you manage to solve the problem?

Ok, so thanks to issue #2315 (https://github.com/openvinotoolkit/cvat/issues/2315) and particularly answer of https://github.com/ChrisCurrin I found out that it can be fixed manually on WSL. The actions he described could be performed after cleaning up containers and volumes, make external volume in docker-compose.override.yml and add volume manually via docker volume create --name cvat_share --opt type=none --opt device=YOUR-PATH --opt o=bind

After adding it manually everything seemed to be working fine

P.S.: One thing to mention: under WSL in Windows I had to write win-style path, i.e. YOUR-PATH = C:\someFolder Otherwise powershell still resulted in mounting error.

[nmanovic]

@MannAgrawal , you need to create the directory. Please run mkdir /mnt/share or sudo mkdir /mnt/share (or choose any other directory and update docker-compose.override.yml accordingly). After that run your up -d command again. It should be without errors. Put your data into /mnt/share directory and inside CVAT you will be able to use it.