Adding docker volume mounts with SystemUserSpawner?

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I am using the SystemUserSpawner to spawn docker containers which persist storage to the user’s home directory on disk. I want to mount some other directories to the container and persist them to the home directory as well.

I tried this first:

c.DockerSpawner.volumes = { '/home/{username}/example': '/etc/example' }

JupyterHub starts the container without complaining, but a docker inspect shows that no such volume mount has been created.

I tried subclassing the spawner in the config as well, which similarly does nothing:

from dockerspawner import SystemUserSpawner
class MyDockerSpawner(SystemUserSpawner):
    def start(self):
        self.volumes['/home/{username}/example'] = {
            'bind': '/etc/example',
            'mode': 'rw'
        }
        return super().start()
c.JupyterHub.spawner_class = MyDockerSpawner

What am I missing here? How do I add mount points to the containers that get spawned?

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It looks like this works after deleting the container image and letting jupyterhub create a new one.