Expected behavior Some setting describing where on my host I can see location of resources used by the application - like Images, Containers. Give me an idea what/where they are using on Disk. Actual behavior While there are artifacts here Library/Containers/com.docker.docker - there is no explanat…

It would be cool to have the amount of disk being used by the VM in the D4M app to help make keeping track of disk space easier.

Has anyone come up with a solution to reduce the size over time? I’m now over 40G. If I remove images the size doesn’t seem to be reduced at all.

After creating and removing many images my Docker.qcow2 becomes very large. I found a solution how to shrink it. It creates new image based on the old and reduces unused space. This works for me: cd ~/Library/Containers/com.docker.docker/Data/com.docker.driver.amd64-linux /Applications/Docker.app/C…

[image] mpapierski: mv Docker2.qcow2 Docker.qcow Is that supposed to be mv Docker2.qcow2 Docker.qcow2

I’ve seen several janitor container that cleanup periodically. https://github.com/checkmate/remora [image] meltwater/docker-cleanup docker-cleanup - Automatic Docker image, container and volume cleanup As I a build stuff, run compose, etc I run several comman…

Thanks for the report. Yes we’re aware that disk usage isn’t exactly transparent right now. We’re working on several improvements in this area to help better manage the diskspace used by the VM. If you find that the image has grown too big and you aren’t worried about any of the images stored you c…

[image] mpapierski: ~/Library/Containers/com.docker.docker/Data/com.docker.driver.amd64-linux I was only able to get Docker to stand back up if I do the following: Quit via menu rm ~/Library/Containers/com.docker.docker/Data/com.docker.driver.amd64-linux/Docker.qcow2 Start via Finder Else …

A mitigation for people with not much free space on their drives is to symlink the Docker.qcow2 file to an external drive.

Although qemu-img command can shrink the Docker.qcow2 file size, but not help too much. Because after removing docker image files, the unused garbage images still remain in the ext4 file system under Docker.qcow2, and these garbage contents resided in ext4 file system cannot be swept away merely exe…

Where does Docker keep images/containers so i can better track my disk usage

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ronaldpetty (Ronald Petty) May 4, 2016, 5:10am 10

This worked. I can only expect this is not the solution going forward.

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Where does Docker keep images/containers so i can better track my disk usage

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