I’m looking for some way to clean up the contents of /var/lib/docker/overlay (or /var/lib/docker/overlay2 with overlay2 - I run both, but on different nodes, both seem to have this issue). Is there any way to map the contents in there to what owns it? We have some CI runners that nightly do the eq…

No. We decided to buy more disk space, because official page explicitely says : At this time, we have traded off simplicity and ease of deployment for disk space.

Thanks, this was exactly what I needed :).

I have same issue - /var/lib/docker/overlay2 has blown to 45 G. Tried everything but nothing seems to work. Only option is to drop docker from our scheme of things.

“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 a…

Hi. I’m using this image to clean old volumes and images every day automatically: https://hub.docker.com/r/clockworksoul/docker-gc-cron/

I’m having a similar issue. I’m trying to reset a mysql database to its initial state but no amount of volume or container or image removal is able to erase the data I’ve put in the db. I’ve followed all of the standard paths and have traced the cached data back to the overlay2 directory. There need…

Hi there. Well, first of all, I would like to say that this kind of bug is the reason many people complain and say bad thing about open source / free software. This kind of problem that sticks forever with no solution most of times brings infeasibility of use. Anyway, I am facing this problem and …

I was able to clean it up while upgrading the Docker version. Stopped Docker (sudo systemctl stop docker) Uninstalled Docker (sudo yum remove docker-ce) Nuked the directory (sudo rm -r /var/lib/docker/overlay2), then re-created the directory (sudo mkdir /var/lib/docker/overlay2). Then re-instal…

Some way to clean up / identify contents of /var/lib/docker/overlay

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eventhorizon (Scott Stensland) June 19, 2018, 12:08pm 16

/var/lib/docker/overlay2 still grows endlessly even after running all of above and others … if ANYONE finds a real solution please post it here … I am using latest docker Version: 18.05.0-ce so this docker bug lives on ;-(((

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Some way to clean up / identify contents of /var/lib/docker/overlay

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