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How to stop Docker from spamming your root filesystem

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How to stop Docker from spamming your root filesystem

Docker annoyingly, by default, will spam your root filesystem and kill your operating system. Amazing software!

Change where docker spams its content.

Stop docker: sudo systemctl stop docker
Make a place for the data to go. For example: mkdir -p ~/docker-data
Create a daemon.json in /etc/docker/ and tell it where the data-root should be: sudo nano /etc/docker/daemon.json

{
  "data-root": "/home/yourusername/docker-data"
}

Restart docker: sudo systemctl start docker

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