diff --git a/3.11/alpine/Dockerfile b/3.11/alpine/Dockerfile
index 62eff230..25a24cd7 100644
--- a/3.11/alpine/Dockerfile
+++ b/3.11/alpine/Dockerfile
@@ -271,8 +271,6 @@ RUN ln -sf /opt/rabbitmq/plugins /plugins
 
 # set home so that any `--user` knows where to put the erlang cookie
 ENV HOME $RABBITMQ_DATA_DIR
-# Hint that the data (a.k.a. home dir) dir should be separate volume
-VOLUME $RABBITMQ_DATA_DIR
 
 # warning: the VM is running with native name encoding of latin1 which may cause Elixir to malfunction as it expects utf8. Please ensure your locale is set to UTF-8 (which can be verified by running "locale" in your shell)
 # Setting all environment variables that control language preferences, behaviour differs - https://www.gnu.org/software/gettext/manual/html_node/The-LANGUAGE-variable.html#The-LANGUAGE-variable
diff --git a/3.11/ubuntu/Dockerfile b/3.11/ubuntu/Dockerfile
index 10214103..2998b5d2 100644
--- a/3.11/ubuntu/Dockerfile
+++ b/3.11/ubuntu/Dockerfile
@@ -266,8 +266,6 @@ RUN ln -sf /opt/rabbitmq/plugins /plugins
 
 # set home so that any `--user` knows where to put the erlang cookie
 ENV HOME $RABBITMQ_DATA_DIR
-# Hint that the data (a.k.a. home dir) dir should be separate volume
-VOLUME $RABBITMQ_DATA_DIR
 
 # warning: the VM is running with native name encoding of latin1 which may cause Elixir to malfunction as it expects utf8. Please ensure your locale is set to UTF-8 (which can be verified by running "locale" in your shell)
 # Setting all environment variables that control language preferences, behaviour differs - https://www.gnu.org/software/gettext/manual/html_node/The-LANGUAGE-variable.html#The-LANGUAGE-variable
diff --git a/3.12/alpine/Dockerfile b/3.12/alpine/Dockerfile
index 4b473225..fff599d9 100644
--- a/3.12/alpine/Dockerfile
+++ b/3.12/alpine/Dockerfile
@@ -271,8 +271,6 @@ RUN ln -sf /opt/rabbitmq/plugins /plugins
 
 # set home so that any `--user` knows where to put the erlang cookie
 ENV HOME $RABBITMQ_DATA_DIR
-# Hint that the data (a.k.a. home dir) dir should be separate volume
-VOLUME $RABBITMQ_DATA_DIR
 
 # warning: the VM is running with native name encoding of latin1 which may cause Elixir to malfunction as it expects utf8. Please ensure your locale is set to UTF-8 (which can be verified by running "locale" in your shell)
 # Setting all environment variables that control language preferences, behaviour differs - https://www.gnu.org/software/gettext/manual/html_node/The-LANGUAGE-variable.html#The-LANGUAGE-variable
diff --git a/3.12/ubuntu/Dockerfile b/3.12/ubuntu/Dockerfile
index c5638d10..fae0268e 100644
--- a/3.12/ubuntu/Dockerfile
+++ b/3.12/ubuntu/Dockerfile
@@ -266,8 +266,6 @@ RUN ln -sf /opt/rabbitmq/plugins /plugins
 
 # set home so that any `--user` knows where to put the erlang cookie
 ENV HOME $RABBITMQ_DATA_DIR
-# Hint that the data (a.k.a. home dir) dir should be separate volume
-VOLUME $RABBITMQ_DATA_DIR
 
 # warning: the VM is running with native name encoding of latin1 which may cause Elixir to malfunction as it expects utf8. Please ensure your locale is set to UTF-8 (which can be verified by running "locale" in your shell)
 # Setting all environment variables that control language preferences, behaviour differs - https://www.gnu.org/software/gettext/manual/html_node/The-LANGUAGE-variable.html#The-LANGUAGE-variable