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…

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…

I was wondering the same thing some time ago. It’s not a bug, it’s a feature :slight_smile: du -sh /var/lib/docker/overlay2 is not showing objective value because merge folders have been mounted using overlay driver and du output is not actual disk allocation size. You can see the actual disk al…

So we had the same issue (using Gitlab + private registry) and found this solution to work. sudo gitlab-ctl registry-garbage-collect This command will remove images in the directory /var/opt/gitlab/gitlab-rails/shared/registry/docker/registry/v2/blobs We reclaimed our disk space usage from 89% t…

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Thank you for your explanation. I tested on my Project and its true. But the Problem is that my mysql stops working cause of full Disk … even the Disk is not really full With du -sh i have 4.8 GB with df -h 18 GB and my mysql container stops working cause there is no free space …

I’m having the same problem. Any solution?

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

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vladkras (Vladkras) October 25, 2018, 10:31am 23

Good to hear, but this topic is about docker itself, not about registry - it’s a separate application

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

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