Change Docker native images location on Windows 10 Pro

Question

This is not a duplicate of Change Docker machine location - Windows

I'm using docker native, version 1.12.1-stable (build: 7135) on Windows 10 Pro with Hyper-V enabled. So docker is not running with VirtualBox nor do I have the folder C:\Users\username\.docker

I'd like to move docker's images, caches, ... to my secondary drive D:\

I guess I should edit the Docker Daemon configuration.

I tried to add "graph": "/D/docker". Docker started correctly but I couldn't pull any image because of an error

open /D/docker/tmp/GetImageBlob135686954: no such file or directory

How to tell docker to use another path to store its images, etc ?

Answer 1

Docker Desktop now can use WSL 2 Backend. In this mode, you need to move the wsl data.

In my case (Windows10 with Docker Desktop) none of the above solutions helped me, but I found the solution; run these commands.

This command changes the docker directory to drive D: (don't forget to quit docker desktop first)

wsl --shutdown wsl --export docker-desktop-data docker-desktop-data.tar wsl --unregister docker-desktop-data wsl --import docker-desktop-data D:\docker-new-repo\ docker-desktop-data.tar --version 2 

And now you can delete .tar file

There is a very good blog post explaining everything:

https://dev.to/kimcuonthenet/move-docker-desktop-data-distro-out-of-system-drive-4cg2

Answer 2

Docker Version : 2.2.0.3 (42716)

1. Right-click on docker icon on desktop tray

2. Click on Settings

3 Click on Resources from the left-hand menu then under the Disk Image location click on browse and change the location

4. Click on apply and restart