NOTE: Either ZFS or btrfs LXD backing store filesystems are required to set disk limits.
$ lxc config device set cn1 root size 30GB
Limiting the root device speed
$ lxc config device set cn1 root limits.read 40MB
$ lxc config device set cn1 root limits.write 20MB
Limiting root device IOPS
$ lxc config device set cn1 root limits.read 30Iops
$ lxc config device set cn1 root limits.write 20Iops
Assigning priority to container1 for disk activity
$ lxc config device set cn1 limits.disk.priority 50
To monitor the current resource usage (memory, disk & network) by container1
$ lxc info cn1
Sharing a directory in the host machine with a container
$ lxc config device add shared-path path=<destination-directory-on-container> source=<source-directory-on-container>