Docker: clean up all stopped containers except data-only containers

Question

What is the Docker way to clean up all stopped Docker containers but retain data-only containers?

• docker rm $(docker ps -qa -f status=exited) removes these too!

How to clean up the according images?

Answer 1

In general there is no definitive way to distinguish data-only from other containers. If you wish them to survive your cleansing, you could probably design a certain name scheme and have more elaborate scripts that wouldn't remote containers with name, say, starting with data-.