Docker for Windows cleanup

Question

I'm using docker for Windows to launch a MSSQL server. Everything is working fine except for the fact that my harddrive is now full. I've used all the cleanup commands that docker has, removing all images and containers:

docker kill $(docker ps -q) docker rm $(docker ps -a -q) docker rmi $(docker images -q -f dangling=true) docker rmi $(docker images -q) 

This will not remove any contents in the c:\ProgramData\Docker\windowsfilter folder, where there are still a lot of file. Roughly 130gb worth's of storage, without any running containers or stored images.

Client:  Version:      17.03.1-ce  API version:  1.27  Go version:   go1.7.5  Git commit:   c6d412e  Built:        Tue Mar 28 00:40:02 2017  OS/Arch:      windows/amd64  Server:  Version:      17.03.1-ce  API version:  1.27 (minimum version 1.24)  Go version:   go1.7.5  Git commit:   c6d412e  Built:        Tue Mar 28 00:40:02 2017  OS/Arch:      windows/amd64  Experimental: true 

I tried to use the docker-ci-zap (https://github.com/jhowardmsft/docker-ci-zap) , but running that tool is not recommended so I would rather use an alternative solution

Answer 1

Since Docker 1.13 (January 2017), Docker has some new canonical pruning subcommands (use with care):

• docker image prune

• docker container prune

• docker volume prune

• docker network prune

• docker system prune

  • all stopped containers
  • all networks not used by at least one container
  • all dangling images
  • all build cache

However, Docker Desktop has had some sketchy upgrades that left things behind, which required manual file removal or "factory resets" for some folks.

• Manual Deletion
  • Mac - https://github.com/docker/for-mac/issues/371 (This one got me a week or so ago. I resorted to pruning and deleting data with rm -rf ~/Library/Containers/com.docker.docker/Data/*)
  • Win - https://github.com/docker/for-win/issues/745#issuecomment-319930974
• Factory Reset In the Docker Preferences GUI, there is a "reset to factory defaults" option. (In Docker Desktop for Mac v3.3, the option is in the "troubleshoot" tab, the icon for which looks like a bug. )