<p>What is the Docker way to clean up all stopped Docker containers but retain data-only containers?</p> <ul> <li> <code>docker rm $(docker ps -qa -f status=exited)</code> removes these too!</li> </ul> <p>How to clean up the according images?</p>

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

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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-.