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From: Jerome Marc <marcgruselle@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 9 Dec 2025 02:25:02 +0100
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Subject: running containers (Podman or Docker) in diskless mode ?
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Hello,

I would like to deploy a small container on my RPI.
The OS is running in diskless mode (lbu) and I have a quite large data
partition which is read-only.
I use the data partition to store large stuff like node libraries.

By the way I was expecting to be able to start a container from this
read-only partition. As the container is immutable I don't see any reason
to make the partition rw, except of course when updating the docker image.
So does anyone tried (and hopefully succeeded) to run a container that way ?

Thank you.

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.</div><div><br></div><div>By the way I was expecting to be able to start a=
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on&#39;t see any reason to make the partition rw, except of course when upd=
ating the docker image. So does anyone tried (and hopefully succeeded) to r=
un a container that way ?</div><div><br></div><div>Thank you.</div><div><br=
></div><div><br></div></div>

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