Running systemctl daemon-reload and systemctl restart docker resulted in the loss of container metadata

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Regarding the issue, if you mount a new disk to where the original data was, you will indeed lose the original data. If I misunderstand it and it is not what happened, please, explain what you did exactly.

Reloading the systemd daemon is neccessary only when you change the systemd service config and if you lose data after that, you either changed the docker data root or any other config like the storage driver that affects where Docker stores data.

The good news is that unless you deleted the original data, it is not likely that you actually lost data. Docker just doesn’t find it and uses a new folder.