Hi All, I’ve mistakenly deleted the docker/overlay2/l folder but all my docker images and containers are still in tact. My understanding is this contains symlinks which allows the docker engine to match up the ids of containers/images/etc. to their actual file locations. As a result, I cannot attach…

Recovering deleted symlinks from docker/overlay2/l

rimelek (Ákos Takács) June 17, 2025, 8:02pm 4

I fixed my post too, thanks

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