Docker doesn't release disk space used by `~/Library/Containers/com.docker.docker/`

Docker Desktop for Mac
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Expected behavior

When removing all images, disk space is released

Actual behavior

Disk space is not released

Information

$ pinata diagnose -u
OS X: version 10.11.5 (build: 15F34)
Docker.app: version: v1.11.1-beta14.5.m
Running diagnostic tests:
[OK]      docker-cli
[OK]      Moby booted
[OK]      driver.amd64-linux
[OK]      vmnetd
[OK]      osxfs
[OK]      db
[OK]      slirp
[OK]      menubar
[OK]      environment
[OK]      Docker
[OK]      VT-x
Docker logs are being collected into /tmp/20160610-181502.tar.gz
Most specific failure is: No error was detected
Your unique id is: 07F54247-13B0-442B-887D-C75E7A3B89FA
Please quote this in all correspondence.

Steps to reproduce the behavior

Add some images, remove all images with docker images -q |xargs docker rmi --force

I filed a bug here: https://github.com/docker/docker/issues/23437

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Anybody knows if there’s a better solution than to kill the Docker installation by deleting ~/Library/Containers/com.docker.docker?

I have to remove that once every 2 or 3 days and setup all images again to prevent it growing larger than 30GB.

Thanks

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The same problem, docker doesn’t release disk space.
Anybody knows how to move images to external hard drive?

diagnostic id FB9F95D1-0EFD-47BA-BABF-87ED0D3DA813
Docker for Mac: version: mac-v1.12.0-beta16.2
OS X: version 10.11.4 (build: 15E65)
logs: /tmp/20160621-150923.tar.gz
failure: No error was detected
[OK] docker-cli
[OK] app
[OK] menubar
[OK] virtualization
[OK] system
[OK] osxfs
[OK] db
[OK] slirp
[OK] moby-console
[OK] logs
[OK] vmnetd
[OK] env
[OK] moby
[OK] driver.amd64-linux

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Resetting to factory defaults works for me. You can do this through the menu bar helper.

5

I just used the reset to factory default and reclaimed about ~60 of 500 GB of disk space even though I have a moderate/low docker usage…

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Since the original GitHub issue linked in the OP is closed, here’s the new issue for this: https://github.com/docker/for-mac/issues/371

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i used this solution to resolve the disk issue