docker image ls [image] docker image prune -a --force --filter "until=240h" => Total reclaimed space: 0B All of the images with no tag are all superseded by the latest images and are redundant. Why are they not being removed?

Instead of forcing an image to be deleted, if a container is still using it, delete the container. If you don’t want to delete the container, then you probably don’t want to delete the image. docker ps -a shows stopped containers. [image] chrisa123456: I don’t know if the --force in the prune c…

This is actually something I’m not sure either, but I also noticed this some month ago. My guess is that somehow those cache entries depend on a newer image or cache entry, but I don’t have a specific explanation

I just tried to remove one of these images manually with rm <id> and I got a warning that the image is used by a stopped container and I had to force delete. I don’t know if the --force in the prune command is not being respected?

[image] chrisa123456: Ahh I see…I was using docker container ls instead of docker ps so that’s why I couldn’t see all of the other containers. docker ps is an alias to docker container ls. You can use both, just pass -a or --all as well that shows all containers, not just running containers.

Docker prune is not removing all images

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chrisa123456 (Chrisa123456) January 7, 2025, 7:41pm 5

Ahh I see…I was using docker container ls instead of docker ps so that’s why I couldn’t see all of the other containers.

I ran docker container prune and then docker image prune and all of the unwanted images deleted successfully.
Thank you

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