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Docker Desktop completely kills my disk space (feddit.org)

submitted 3 weeks ago by [email protected] to c/docker

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Hi guys, I have no problem running docker (containers) via CLI, but I though it would be nice try Docker Desktop on my Ubuntu machine. But as soon as I start Docker Desktop it runs "starting Docker engine" indefinitely until my drive is full. The .docker folder then is about 70GB large. I read somewhere that this is the virtual disk size that is being created and that I could change it in the settings, but those are blocked until the engine starting process is finished (which it never does). Anyone else has experienced this?

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[–] onlinepersona 2 points 2 weeks ago

Docker Desktop on ubuntu? I didn't even know it ran on Ubuntu.

Check your system logs journalctl --pager-end and search for docker. If you haven't used it before enter ?docker and hit enter. That'll search backwards for docker. Or open journalctl --follow in one window and watch the logs, then do what you did before.

Honestly though, I'd not use docker desktop and use straight docker in the command line. I have no idea what Docker Desktop on linux is for as you have to run docker compose up and docker run in the command line anyway, right?

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