i tried this solution Docker uses an overlay2 file system in /var/lib/docker. An overlay2 filesystem cannot be used on an overlay file system that overlayroot uses. It can however reside on it as regular files. So my solution was to: make a copy of /var/lib/docker/overlay2. Mount a tmpfs on /var/li…

I didn’t have time to read and answer posts last time and I still don’t have too much, but I reopened the autoclosed topic to leave a comment at least. Moving the Docker data root is not as simple as using regular copy commands. It isnimportant to keep the exact same permissions and filetypes. Ther…

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rimelek (Ákos Takács) February 14, 2025, 6:52am 2

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