Docker does not free disk usage on Windows 10

Asked Nov 20 '16 at 16:00

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I have been playing around with Docker under Windows 10 (using Hyper-V virtualization). After having finished, I decided to remove all running containers and images using the following command:

docker rm $(docker ps -a -q)
docker rmi $(docker images -q)

However it seems that the disk space is not reclaimed and I still have a whopping 38GB used by Docker on my ssd. What is the exact procedure to release that space? Looking at the my disk usage stats, I can see that that space is entirely used by the MobiLinux virtual disk...

Any procedure to shrink this on Windows 10 would be greatly appreciated!

Output of docker volume ls shown below:

Edit: this has been confirmed as a bug by the docker for windows team. I have opened an issue, which can be tracked here: https://github.com/docker/for-win/issues/244

edited Nov 21 '16 at 14:49

asked Nov 20 '16 at 16:00

BigONotation

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Did you use any named volumes? – Farhad Farahi Nov 20 '16 at 16:08
No (not sure what's a named volume). Simply proceeded as indicated in the getting started docs...downloaded a couple of images and then started fooling around :). Also added my own software to the running container. However I would expect the disk usage to shrink once you delete the images/containers. – BigONotation Nov 20 '16 at 16:15
can you post the output of `docker volume ls` ? – Farhad Farahi Nov 20 '16 at 16:17
added output screenshot of `docker volume ls` to original post – BigONotation Nov 20 '16 at 16:38
There are no volumes then. – Farhad Farahi Nov 20 '16 at 16:41
this has nothing to do with volumes. If you delete all containers & images. Disk usage should be reclaimed – BigONotation Nov 20 '16 at 16:45
Removing containers wont remove named volumes. but this is not the case. – Farhad Farahi Nov 20 '16 at 16:46
Would it help if you factory reset docker ? Or uninstall and install. – elha2en Nov 20 '16 at 17:36
Did you try http://stackoverflow.com/questions/17236796/how-to-remove-old-docker-containers/39860665#39860665 ? – VladoDemcak Nov 20 '16 at 18:55

Docker does not free disk usage on Windows 10

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