# Default Volume Directory For Each Container

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/default-volume-directory-for-each-container/70169
**Category:** Self-hosting
**Created:** [September 16, 2017, 5:13am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/default-volume-directory-for-each-container/70169 "2017-09-16T05:13:13Z")
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### Author: ![Isabel\_Jason](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Isabel\_Jason](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Isabel_Jason)
#### Post date: [September 16, 2017, 5:13am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/default-volume-directory-for-each-container/70169/1 "2017-09-16T05:13:14Z")

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I am an entire new to docker and I comprehend the way default container volumes are made. container volumes are within/var/lib/docker/volumes. would i be able to change the default volume catalog for every holder, to an directory/partition of decision on the host framework?

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### Author: ![riking](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/riking/32/170938_2.png) [@riking](https://meta.discourse.org/u/riking)
#### Post date: [September 16, 2017, 5:46am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/default-volume-directory-for-each-container/70169/2 "2017-09-16T05:46:58Z")

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If you’re installing Discourse by itself, you shouldn’t need to worry about the internals of Docker. Exactly how are you trying to set up your install and why?

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### Author: ![Isabel\_Jason](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Isabel\_Jason](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Isabel_Jason)
#### Post date: [September 16, 2017, 7:20am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/default-volume-directory-for-each-container/70169/3 "2017-09-16T07:20:39Z")

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> [@Isabel\_Jason](#):
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> container volumes are within/var/lib/docker/volumes

Installing Discourse haven’t helped me a lot to Use less space in-order to maintain specific volume for each & delete orphaned volumes in [Docker](https://mindmajix.com/docker-training) containers. so could you help me with that??

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### Author: ![fefrei](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/fefrei/32/119538_2.png) [@fefrei](https://meta.discourse.org/u/fefrei)
#### Post date: [September 16, 2017, 9:54am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/default-volume-directory-for-each-container/70169/4 "2017-09-16T09:54:48Z")

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If you are low on disk space, try running `/var/discourse/launcher cleanup` to clean up old containers first.  
If you _really_ want, you can use symlinks to move Docker’s storage or the shared folders used by Discourse to a different volume, but this isn’t recommended.