I have a Kubernetes cluster with one node (docker-desktop). The cluster has a default storage class hostpath and created a PV as well as a corresponding PVC making use of hostpath storage class. The PVC has successfully bound to a running pod.

As I understand, hostpath makes use of the node’s file system as a storage location that pods can use to store files in.

My question is how can I manually access to store files to the node’s file system so that the files may be accessible by the running pod?

Please find my PV:

apiVersion: v1
kind: PersistentVolume
metadata:
  name: mps-pv
spec:
  accessModes:
    - ReadWriteOnce
  capacity:
    storage: 20Gi
  persistentVolumeReclaimPolicy: Retain
  storageClassName: hostpath
  hostPath:
    path: /mnt/mps/

And my PVC

apiVersion: v1
kind: PersistentVolumeClaim
metadata:
  name: mps-pv-claim
  namespace: mps
spec:
  accessModes:
    - ReadWriteOnce
  resources:
    requests:
      storage: 20Gi
  storageClassName: hostpath
  volumeName: mps-pv

PS I am new to Kuberenetes so my question may not even be relevant here.