Docker error no space left on device

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I installed docker on a Debian 7 machine in the following way     echo deb http   get docker io ubuntu docker main  gt   etc apt sources list d docker list   sudo apt-get update   curl -sSL https   get docker com ubuntu    sudo sh   After that when I first tried creating an Image it failed with the following error   time  2015-06-02T14 26 37-04 00  level info msg   8  System error  write  sys fs cgroup docker 01f5670fbee1f6687f58f3a943b1e1bdaec2630197fa4da1b19cc3db7e3d3883 cgroup procs  no space left on device    Here is the docker info   Containers  2 Images  21 Storage Driver  aufs Root Dir   var lib docker aufs Backing Filesystem  extfs Dirs  25 Dirperm1 Supported  true Execution Driver  native-0 2 Kernel Version  3 16 0-0 bpo 4-amd64 Operating System  Debian GNU Linux 7  wheezy  CPUs  2  Total Memory  15 7 GiB   WARNING  No memory limit support  WARNING  No swap limit support   How can I increase the memory  Where are the system configurations stored   From Kal s suggestions   When I got rid of all the images and containers it did free some space and the image build ran longer before failing with the same error  So the question is  which space is this referring to and how do I configure it

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docker rm   docker ps -aq    This worked for me  docker system prune    appears to be better option with latest version

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In my case I didn t have so many images containers  but the build cache was filling up my Docker Disk  You can see that this is the problem by running docker system df  Output  TYPE                TOTAL               ACTIVE              SIZE                RECLAIMABLE Images              22                  13                  7 581GB             3 899GB  51   Containers          15                  0                   2 166GB             2 166GB  100   Local Volumes       4                   4                   550 2MB             0B  0   Build Cache         611                 0                   43 83GB             43 83GB           The command below solves that issue docker builder prune

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I went to the docker settings and changed the image space available  It reached the limit while creating the new image with docker build  So I just increased the amount available

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to remove all unused containers  volumes  networks and images at once  https   docs docker com engine reference commandline system prune  related-commands    docker system prune -a -f --volumes   if it s not enough  one can remove running containers first   docker rm -f   docker ps -a -q  docker system prune -a -f --volumes   increasing  var lib docker or using another location with more space  is also a good alternative to get rid of this error  see How to change the docker image installation directory

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I run the below commands    There is no need to rebuilt images afterwards   docker rm   docker ps -qf  status exited   docker rmi   docker images -qf  dangling true   docker volume rm   docker volume ls -qf dangling true    These remove exited dangling containers and dangling volumes

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Seems like there are a few ways this can occur   The issue I had was that the docker disk image had hit its maximum size  Docker Whale -  Preferences -  Disk if you want to view what size that is in OSX      I upped the limit and and was good to go   I m sure cleaning up unused images would work as well

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Your cgroups have the cpuset controller enabled  This controller is mostly useful in NUMA environment where it allows to finely specify which CPU memory bank your tasks are allowed to run   By default the mandatory cpuset mems and cpuset cpus are not set which means that there is  no space left  for your task  hence the error   The easiest way to fix this is to enable cgroup clone children to 1 in the root cgroup  In your case  it should be   echo 1  gt   sys fs cgroup docker cgroup clone children   It will basically instruct the system to automatically initialize container s cpuset mems and cpuset cpus from their parent cgroup

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Docker for Mac  So docker system prune and docker system prune --volumes suggested in other answers freed up some space each time  but eventually every time I ran anything I was getting the error   What actually fixed the root issue was deleting the Docker raw file that Docker for Mac uses for storage  and restarting it   To find that file open up Docker for Mac and go to   Preferences  gt  Resources  gt  Advanced  gt  Disk Image Location       this is for version 2 2 0 5  but on older versions it should be similar   On newer versions of Docker for Mac    it shows you the actual size of that file on disk right there in the UI  as well as its max allocated size  You ll probably see that it is massive  For example on my machine it was 41GB         On older versions  it doesn t show you the actual disk usage in the UI  and MacOS Finder always shows the file size as the max allocated size  You can check the actual size on disk by opening the directory in a terminal and running du -h Docker raw   I deleted Docker raw  restarted Docker for Mac  and the file was automatically created again and was back to being 0GB    Everything continued to work as before  though of course I had lost my Docker cache  As expected  after running a few Docker commands the file started to fill up again with a few GB of stuff  but nowhere near 41GB     Update   A few months later  my Docker raw filled back up again to a similar size  So this method did work  but has to repeated every few months  For me that s fine     A note on why this works - I have to assume it s a bug in Docker for Mac  It really seems like docker system prune   docker system prune --volumes should entirely clear the contents of this file  but it appears the file accumulates other stuff that can t be deleted by these commands  Anyway  deleting it manually solves the problem

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you can also use   docker system prune   or for just volumes   docker volume prune

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1  Remove Containers    docker rm   docker ps -aq  2  Remove Images    docker rmi   docker images -q  Instead of perform steps 1 and 2 you can do  docker system prune This command will remove   All stopped containers All volumes not used by at least one container All networks not used by at least one container All dangling images

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Clean dangled images docker rmi   docker images -f  dangling true  -q  Remove unwanted volumes Remove unused images Remove unused containers

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If you re using the boot2docker image via Docker Toolkit  then the problem stems from the fact that the boot2docker virtual machine has run out of space    When you do a docker import or add a new image  the image gets copied into the  mnt sda1 which might have become full   One way to check what space you have available in the image  is to ssh into the vm and run df -h and check the remaining space in  mnt sda1  The ssh command is docker-machine ssh default  Once you are sure that it is indeed a space issue  you can either clean up according to the instructions in some of the answers on this question  or you may choose to resize the boot2docker image itself  by increasing the space on  mnt sda1  You can follow the instructions here to do the resizing of the image https   gist github com joost a7cfa7b741d9d39c1307

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As already mentioned    docker system prune   helps  but with Docker 17 06 1 and later without pruning unused volumes  Since Docker 17 06 1  the following command prunes volumes  too   docker system prune --volumes   From the Docker documentation  https   docs docker com config pruning      The docker system prune command is a shortcut that prunes images  containers  and networks  In Docker 17 06 0 and earlier  volumes are also pruned  In Docker 17 06 1 and higher  you must specify the --volumes flag for docker system prune to prune volumes    If you want to prune volumes and keep images and containers   docker volume prune

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I also encountered this issue on RHEL machine  I did not find any apt solution anywhere on stack-overflow and docker-hub community  If you are facing this issue even after below command   docker system prune --all  The solution which worked finally    docker info    To check current docker storage driver Mine was   Storage Driver  devicemapper  If you have storage driver as overlay2 nothing to worry about  Solution will still work for you   df -h   This is to check the available file systems on machine and the path where they are mounted  Two mounted path to have a note   dev mapper rootvg-var   7 6G  1 2G  6 1G  16   var  dev mapper rootvg-apps   60G  9 2G   48G  17   apps Note- By default docker storage path is  var lib docker  It has available space  6 GB and hence all the space related issues  So basically  I have to move default storage to some other storage where available space is more  For me its File sysyem path   dev mapper rootvg-apps  which is mounted on  apps  Now task is to move  var lib docker to something like  apps newdocker docker   mkdir  apps newdocker docker chmod -R 777  apps newdocker docker Update docker serive file on linux which resides under   usr lib systemd system   vi  usr lib systemd system docker service  if storage device is devicemapper   comment existing ExecStart line and add below under  Service     ExecStart  ExecStart  usr bin dockerd -s devicemapper --storage-opt dm fs xfs --storage-opt dm basesize 40GB -g  apps newdocker docker --exec-opt native cgroupdriver cgroupfs  Or if storage device is overlay2    just add -g  apps newdocker docker in the existing ExexStart statement  Something like ExecStart  usr bin dockerd -g  apps newdocker docker -H fd    --containerd  run containerd containerd sock  rm -rf  var lib docker  It will delete all existing docker data  systemctl stop docker ps aux   grep -i docker   grep -v grep   If no output has been produced by the above command  reload systemd daemon by below command   systemctl daemon-reload systemctl start docker docker info    Check out the Data Space Available  62 15GB after mouting to docker to new File system   DONE

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For me docker system prune did the trick  I m running mac os

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Docker leaves dangling images around that can take up your space  To clean up after Docker  run the following   docker image prune  -af if you want to force remove all images    or with older versions of Docker   docker rm   docker ps -q -f  status exited   docker rmi   docker images -q -f  dangling true     This will remove exited and dangling images  which hopefully clears out device space

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In my case installation of ubuntu-server 18 04 1  for some weird reason  created an LVM logical volume with just 4GBs in size instead of 750GBs  Therefore when pulling images i would get this  no space left on device  error  The fix is simple   lvextend -l 100 FREE  dev mapper ubuntu--vg-ubuntu--lv resize2fs  dev mapper ubuntu--vg-ubuntu--lv

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If you re using Docker Desktop  you can increase Disk image size in Advanced Settings by going to Docker s Preferences   Here is the screenshot from macOS

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If it s just a test installation of Docker  ie not production  and you don t care about doing a nuclear clean  you can   clean all containers  docker ps -a   sed  1 d    awk   print  1     xargs -L1 docker rm  clean all images  docker images -a   sed  1 d    awk   print  3     xargs -L1 docker rmi -f  Again  I use this in my ec2 instances when developing Docker  not in any serious QA or Production path  The great thing is that if you have your Dockerfile s   it s easy to rebuild and or docker pull

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I just ran into this  I m on Ubuntu 20 04  What worked  Reinstalling Docker  sudo apt-get purge docker-ce docker-ce-cli containerd io sudo apt-get install docker-ce docker-ce-cli containerd io  A bit crude  I know  I tried pruning Docker  but it still would not work

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Clean Docker by using the following command   docker images --no-trunc   grep   lt none gt     awk    print  3        xargs docker rmi

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The current best practice is  docker system prune  Note the output from this command prior to accepting the consequences  WARNING  This will remove    - all stopped containers   - all networks not used by at least one container   - all dangling images   - all dangling build cache  Are you sure you want to continue   y N   In other words  continuing with this command is permanent  Keep in mind that best practice is to treat stopped containers as ephemeral i e  you should be designing your work with Docker to not keep these stopped containers around  You may want to consider using the --rm flag at runtime if you are not actively debugging your containers  Make sure you read this answer  re  Volumes You may also be interested in this answer  if docker system prune does not work for you

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I had the same error and solve it this way   1   Delete the orphaned volumes in Docker  you can use the built-in docker volume command  The built-in command also deletes any directory in  var lib docker volumes that is not a volume so make sure you didn t put anything in there you want to save   Warning be very careful with this if you have some data you want to keep  Cleanup     docker volume rm   docker volume ls -qf dangling true    Additional commands   List dangling volumes     docker volume ls -qf dangling true   List all volumes     docker volume ls     2   Also consider removing all the unused Images   First get rid of the  lt none gt  images  those are sometimes generated while building an image and if for any reason the image building was interrupted  they stay there    here s a nice script I use to remove them   docker rmi   docker images   grep    lt none gt     awk   print  3      Then if you are using Docker Compose to build Images locally for every project  You will end up with a lot of images usually named like your folder  example if your project folder named Hello  you will find images name Hello blablabla   so also consider removing all these images  you can edit the above script to remove them or remove them manually with   docker rmi  image-name

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Check that you have free space on  var as this is where Docker stores the image files by default  in  var lib docker    First clean stuff up by using docker ps -a to list all containers  including stopped ones  and docker rm to remove them  then use docker images to list all the images you have stored and docker rmi to remove them   Next change the storage location with a -g option on the docker daemon or by editing  etc default docker and adding the -g option to DOCKER OPTS  -g specifies the location of the  Docker runtime  which is basically all the stuff that Docker creates as you build images and run containers  Choose a location with plenty of space as the disk space used will tend to grow over time  If you edit  etc default docker  you will need to restart the docker daemon for the change to take effect    Now you should be able to create a new image  or pull one from Docker Hub  and you should see a bunch of files getting created in the directory you specified with the -g option

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Don t just run the docker prune command  It will delete all the docker networks  containers  and images  So you might end up losing the important data as well  The error shows that  quot No space left on device quot  so we just need to free up some space  The easiest way to free some space is to remove dangling images  When the old created images are not being used those images are referred to as dangling images or there are some cache images as well which you can remove  Use the below commands  To list all dangling images image id  docker images -f  quot dangling true quot  -q  to remove the images by image id  docker rmi IMAGE ID  This way you can free up some space and start hacking with docker again

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Its may be due to the default storage space set to 40GB   default path    var lib docker   you can change the storage volume to point to different path   edit file -   etc sysconfig docker-storage update below line  add if not exists    DOCKER STORAGE OPTIONS  --storage-driver overlay --graph CUSTOM PATH    Restart docker systemctl stop docker systemctl daemon-reload systemctl start docker   if you run command docker info   it should show storage driver as overlay

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