device-mapper – Tarik Billa

Clean docker environment: devicemapper

May 22, 2023 by Tarik

Don’t use a devicemapper loop file for anything serious! Docker has big warnings about this. The /var/lib/docker/devicemapper/devicemapper directory contains the sparse loop files that contain all the data that docker mounts. So you would need to use lvm tools to trawl around them and do things. Have a read though the remove issues with devicemapper, … Read more

Why is docker image eating up my disk space that is not used by docker

January 1, 2023 by Tarik

Deleting my entire /var/lib/docker is not ok for me. These are a safer ways: Solution 1: The following commands from the issue clear up space for me and it’s a lot safer than deleting /var/lib/docker or for Windows check your disk image location here. Before: docker info Example output: Metadata file: Data Space Used: 53.38 … Read more

How to analyze disk usage of a Docker container

September 27, 2022 by Tarik

To see the file size of your containers, you can use the –size argument of docker ps: docker ps –size