elastic search won't run with data volume mapped

[dansantner]

I'm on a mac. I use the command
docker run -d -v "$PWD/esdata":/usr/share/elasticsearch/data -p 9200:9200 -p 9300:9300 elasticsearch
to launch elastic but it immediately shuts down with this message

{1.7.3}: Initialization Failed ...

• ElasticsearchIllegalStateException[Failed to created node environment]
  AccessDeniedException[/usr/share/elasticsearch/data/elasticsearch]

Any ideas on how to fix?

[yosifkit]

This is a permissions issue since the mounted folder from your host is owned by uid/gid 1000:50 whereas the user in the container is elasticsearch (105:108). There is much discussion over on boot2docker/boot2docker#581.

[dansantner]

thanks for responding @yosifkit.