Consistently out of disk space in docker beta

Docker Desktop for Mac
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@robertoandrade, I’ve just installed 1.13 and have noticed that the procedure to grow the qcow file as specified further up in the thread no longer works.

I’ve started a build in my environment and am hoping (:slight_smile:) that the qcow will continue to grow.

For my use case I need the qcow to be at least 200GB

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This issue reared it’s head again for me in the last few days. Im on the beta channel. Switching to stable to see if it solves the issue.

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For growing the qcow volume total space see https://github.com/docker/for-mac/issues/371#issuecomment-262826610 (the qcow location is now configurable in the Preferences of the app.

For shrinking the qcow file image size see https://github.com/docker/for-mac/issues/371#issuecomment-265525709 which is now in stable as of 1.13. Compaction is performed on shutdown and TRIM is done every 15m (unless you execute it manually, then it’s done immediately).

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This has been addressed for me. I do have some images that are very large so I end up running these clean up commands once in a while and I find it to work fairly well. I haven’t seen ay out of space issues in a long time.

for item in $(docker ps -aq); do
docker stop $item
docker rm $item
done

for item in $(docker images --filter dangling=true -q); do
docker rmi $item
done

I’m not sure if this helps. But figured I’d share.