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…

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

venkatrahul (Venkatrahul) February 25, 2021, 6:12am 44

“docker system prune -a” freed up disk space from /var/lib/docker/overlay2
“docker volume rm $(docker volume ls -qf dangling=true)” freed up disk space from /var/lib/docker/volumes

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

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