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#!/bin/sh
remove_dangling() {
echo "Removing dangling images ..."
docker rmi $(docker images -f dangling=true -q)
}
remove_stopped_containers() {
echo "Removing stopped containers ..."
docker rm $(docker ps -qa)
}
case $1 in
images)
remove_dangling
;;
containers)
read -p "Are you sure you want to remove all stopped containers?" -n 1 -r
echo #
if [[ $REPLY =~ ^[Yy]$ ]]
then
remove_stopped_containers
fi
;;
*)
echo "
usage: docker-clean containers|images
containers - removes all stopped containers it can.
images - removes dangling (un-needed) image layers - images you no longer need
"
;;
esac
@DamonOehlman
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Thanks mate :)

Though a bigger disk does sound nice...

@michaelneale
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also docker run --rm to stop them building up...

@twillouer
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docker rmi $(docker images -f dangling=true -q), no ? :)

@michaelneale
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@twillouer ah yes - for some reason that didn't make it from my local copy - well spotted. Corrected.

@michaelneale
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thanks to @huntc for mentioning "dangling" to be (I would have though it was a joke).

@tfennelly
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I ran into this issue doing what seems to be fairly lightweight stuff. In my case, even after cleaning out all containers and images, I still have about 25Gb of images according to docker (docker images -a | tr -s ' ' | cut -d ' ' -f 7 | awk '{s+=$1} END {print s}'). That must not be totally accurate though because VB says that the VMDK image is 19Gb.

Going to try https://docs.docker.com/articles/b2d_volume_resize/ since apparently those VMDK images are not resizable.

@ryanramage
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Should

docker rmi $(docker images -f dangling=true -q)

be

docker rmi -f $(docker images dangling=true -q)

Seems to me the -f is to force the delete of the image id.

@tupy
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tupy commented May 19, 2016

Also remove volumes with docker volume rm $(docker volume ls -qf dangling=true)

@kenyee
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kenyee commented Dec 29, 2016

Be sure to do what tupy suggested only after you get your current containers running so you don't pure volumes that they might be using if they weren't running ;-)

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