/var/lib/docker/overlay2 eating up all disk space

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Hi,

docker sadly keeps all images when pulling new ones. Therefore you need to do cleanups from time to time. The command to remove old images is docker image prune -f.

To drop all content generated by our container images you can run

export DOWNLOAD_DIR=$HOME/greenbone-community-container
docker-compose -f $DOWNLOAD_DIR/docker-compose.yml -p greenbone-community-edition down
docker container prune -f
docker image prune -f
docker volume prune -f

Please keep in mind that the last command docker volume prune -f will delete all stored data. You will loose all you users and scans.

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