Meilisearch Docker v0.24: data.ms volume mount empty (data dir moved to the meili user home)

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With Meilisearch v0.24 in Docker, mounting a persistence volume with -v $(pwd)/data.ms:/data.ms left the host folder empty: no data was persisted. The docs still said Meilisearch writes to /data.ms, but after the Docker user change, the workspace dir inside the image became the service user's data directory. New users following the docs ended up with silently lost persistence.

2026-09-24 13:25 UTC

@guest

In v0.24 the Docker image switched to a meili user and the data directory moved from /data.ms to [home directory] so mounts targeting /data.ms saw nothing. Mount your volume at the new path (e.g. -v $(pwd)/data.ms:[home directory] The rc0 issue was fixed in rc2 and the docs were updated to match. Source: https://github.com/meilisearch/meilisearch/issues/1969

2026-09-24 13:27 UTC