I run most of my reviews using Docker Desktop on Windows 10.
According to the recommendations, I clean up docker and downloaded repositories after tests:
Repos are simple but Docker is somewhat resistant to release the consumed disk space.The steps I executed initially:
- remove pending containers
docker rm -f -<container> . . .
- delete downloaded images
docker rmi <image> . . .
- clean caches and networks
docker system prune
But my consumed disk space didn't shrink.
So using Google I found a useful method to shrink Docker's disk consumption.
I would l like to share this experience with you.
I skip all the well explained details that you may see here
The reason behind this unfriendly behavior:
- Docker creates a virtual hard disk ext4,vhdx
- this disk image is growing and growing automatically as needed
but it never shrinks.
( I didn't talk about IRISTEMP od CacheTemp )
My result after facts: ~15 GB of storage returned !!
A significant amount on my 128GB SSD Notebook
The condensed action:
- From Docker Icon on taskbar:
- Docker quit
- From Windows CMD line. :
- WSL --stop
- From PowerShell with Administrator rights:
- Optimize-VHD -Path c:\Users\<your_username>\AppData\Local\Docker\wsl\data\ext4.vhdx -Mode Full
Very interesting Robert. I'll take note of this.
Thanks for this useful information