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Romero Dias
Romero Dias

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Docker commands

Delete images

  • By name
docker rmi $(docker images  'imagename' -a -q) 
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  • Untagged images
docker rmi $(docker images -f "dangling=true" -q) 
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Export/import image as .tar file

*Save image to .tar file

 docker save -o <filename>.tar <image-name>:<image-tag>
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  • Load/import image
docker load -i <filename>.tar
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Move the Docker directory

We gonna move the default docker directory "/var/lib/docker" to another.
Usually doing it when the docker host disk was not propertly dimensioned and we cannot increase de size.

Stop the docker service

service docker stop
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Verify if docker process is running yet

ps faux | grep docker --color
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Verify there is some files in the default docker directory

ls -la /var/lib/docker/
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Make a backup from docker directory

tar -zcC /var/lib docker > /dados/docker/bkp/var_lib_docker-backup-$(date +%s).tar.gz
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Move the directory /var/lib/docker to new home

mv /var/lib/docker /dados/docker
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Create a symlink

ln -s /dados/docker /var/lib/docker
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Verify symlink working well

ls -la /var/lib/docker
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Start the docker service

service docker start
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