“docker system prune -a” did seem to recover the stuff /var/lib/docker/overlay*, but I had stopped all containers and was happy to lose all the images I had on the machine - I could pull them down again from the local server. Next time I might try without stopping the (few) containers I have going and see whether it is intelligent enough to recover the space then.
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