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* <code>-B /home:/cluster_home</code>
* <code>-B /home:/cluster_home</code>


This ensures that configuration files and programs in your home directory do not interfere with the software in your container. For example, programs in <code>$HOME/bin</code> and Python packages in <code>$HOME/.local/lib/python3.x</code> could be used instead of the corresponding files in your container in you used <code>-B /home</code>.
This ensures that configuration files and programs in your home directory do not interfere with the software in your container. For example, programs in <code>$HOME/bin</code> and Python packages in <code>$HOME/.local/lib/python3.x</code> could be used instead of the corresponding files in your container if you used <code>-B /home</code>.


Finally, <b>don't mount our CVMFS paths</b> inside your containers as this is fraught with perils and defeats many reasons to use a container. The programs that have to run inside a container need to be completely inside the container. Don't introduce even more programs inside the container if they don't need to be there.
Finally, <b>don't mount our CVMFS paths</b> inside your containers as this is fraught with perils and defeats many reasons to use a container. The programs that have to run inside a container need to be completely inside the container. Don't introduce even more programs inside the container if they don't need to be there.
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