Docker with devicemapper doesn't start on CentOS 7

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Hello,

I’m facing an issue with Docker 1.9.1 under CentOS 7. I cannot start the docker daemon because it fails to set up the storage.
This server worked for more than a year using the devicemapper on the same disk as the system (this is a test server so I didn’t define any specific storage). But now, when it starts, docker-storage-setup want to create a logical volume on the same volume group as the system, and of course there no more space available. I don’t understand why it can no more use the same storage under /var/lib/docker as it did until now. In addition there’s still some disk space available in /var/lib/docker.

Here are some details:

# /usr/bin/docker-storage-setup
  Rounding up size to full physical extent 24.00 MiB
  Volume group "system" has insufficient free space (1 extents): 6 required.

(this is normal as the VG system is using the whole disk space)

# df
Filesystem              1K-blocks     Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/mapper/system-vg00  23049220 12779416  10269804  56% /
devtmpfs                  1930828        0   1930828   0% /dev
tmpfs                     1941412        0   1941412   0% /dev/shm
tmpfs                     1941412     8668   1932744   1% /run
tmpfs                     1941412        0   1941412   0% /sys/fs/cgroup
/dev/sda1                 1002316   267456    682280  29% /boot
tmpfs                      388284        0    388284   0% /run/user/1000

(as you see there still some disk space available for /var/lib/docker)

# cat /etc/sysconfig/docker-storage
DOCKER_STORAGE_OPTIONS=

(and nothing tells docker to use a new logical volume)

Any idea why this appeared ?

Thanks for your attention,

Regards,
Pierre