[image] When I run “docker commit …”, it fills up my hard drive with no way to clear it out. When I then try to delete the container I tried to commit, it cannot be done because my hard drive is full. I’m somewhat shocked that this user journey is even possible. There should be a command to list …

[image] Ok, I was able to delete the container after restarting my computer (I just lost all the work I did this weekend), but it didn’t reclaim the hard drive space. To be clear, I had 70 GB of free hard drive space that is now being held hostage by Docker. I followed these instructions which red…

you can try docker system prune to clear up the hard drive docker system prune docker system prune: Remove all unused containers, networks, images (both dangling and unreferenced), and optionally, volumes.

Thanks for the idea. I avoided it because the first message says it will delete all stopped Containers, but I really, really didn’t want to accidentally delete some of my containers. I think I could start the Containers I didn’t want to use and add tags and then a filter in the command to not clean …

Docker commit fills up hard drive; cannot be cleaned up

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jojenki (Jojenki) May 22, 2023, 3:10am 4

Ok, it looks like this can be mitigated by moving the file to a new drive. I followed most of the instructions below by stopping WSL, making a backup of the WSL into an new directory, and re-registering the Docker WSL entry using that backup.

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Docker commit fills up hard drive; cannot be cleaned up

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