From 484b4e2bffec074e6af9f28afb52cf9154fca8d9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "W. Trevor King" <wking@tremily.us>
Date: Mon, 30 Dec 2013 21:38:26 -0800
Subject: [PATCH] portage/README.md: You can mount volumes from stopped
 containers

As Sven Dowideit describes in a pending doc update [1].

[1]: https://github.com/dotcloud/docker/pull/3389
---
 portage/README.md | 8 ++++++++
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+)

diff --git a/portage/README.md b/portage/README.md
index 534124a..43a5bc9 100644
--- a/portage/README.md
+++ b/portage/README.md
@@ -44,5 +44,13 @@ will still be local to your client containers, so you'll get
 promptings for reading the news on both `d1a49abc4b3c` and
 `187adaf8babd`.
 
+You can use container volumes even if their container is not running.
+For example:
+
+    $ docker run -name portage wking/portage true
+
+However, it may be useful to leave the container running so you don't
+remove it up by accident.
+
 [VOLUME]: http://docs.docker.io/en/latest/use/builder/#volume
 [volumes-from]: http://docs.docker.io/en/latest/use/working_with_volumes/#mount-volumes-from-an-existing-container
-- 
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