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Clean and Resize Docker in Windows 10
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my Win10 instance have like 30GBs of file occupied by Docker Images, this is how i clean them.

First, remove the whole images docker system prune -a --filter label!=do-not-remove

Then stop Docker, and run below command from PowerShell (dont forget to run this as Administrator)

  • Mount-VHD -Path "C:\Users\Public\Documents\Hyper-V\Virtual Hard Disks\MobyLinuxVM.vhdx" -ReadOnly
  • Optimize-VHD -Path "C:\Users\Public\Documents\Hyper-V\Virtual Hard Disks\MobyLinuxVM.vhdx" -Mode Full
  • Dismount-VHD -Path "C:\Users\Public\Documents\Hyper-V\Virtual Hard Disks\MobyLinuxVM.vhdx
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