I use Docker for Mac a lot, and sometimes I run out of free disk space. After resetting Docker for Mac, I am usually able to reclaim 50G or more. It’s not always obvious that disk is taken by the Docker for Mac VM, other apps warn me first. It’d be great if it was Docker for Mac that warned me, or even better - just clean-up old containers and unused images for me (perhaps as an opt-in).
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