Unable to start Docker error from systemctl status docker.service and journalctl -xeu not really making sense

[rimelek (Ákos Takács)]

@priestapostate

However, after performing the steps in this document (which doesn’t mention the daemon.json file), upon attempting to restart docker, the I then receive the error message.

That is not a document, just someone’s old blogpost from more than 4 years ago. Why not starting with the documentation instead?

I even shared the right link to the right configuration in the previous topic, so I’m not sure why you went to a blogpost instead

@rimelek

Otherwise you could not test Ansible tasks that would install packages that require systemd.

@priestapostate

I am researching on how to to change the Docker Storage location,

https://docs.docker.com/engine/daemon/#configure-the-data-directory-location

When the containerd image store is enabled (as it is in newly installed Dockr versions), the bigger data

The old -g option doesn’t exist anymore. It is --data-root which can be set in the daemon.json and that is the recommended way to set it instead of changing the systemd service files.

Also don1t forget the containerd settings which is just under the docker settings in the linked documentation.

And if you are looking for the daemon json, that is also on the same page a little above the other part:

https://docs.docker.com/engine/daemon/#configuration-file