Discourse image and installation size. Clean /var/lib/docker/overlay2?

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An update: as I’ve taken a backup and run an update, I also ran a cleanup.

I’m fairly sure that the tools to manage docker images are preferable to direct action on /var/lib/docker/overlay2. And the automatic cleanup is preferable to those tools. (But as noted in the linked posts, there are other ways in which disk space gets used: backups, swapfiles, journal files, uploads, imports, log files, and so on)

Here’s what I saw, as an ‘after’ to the ‘before’ posted above - note that the starting point is lower on free disk space, probably because of the backup:

# df -h /
Filesystem      Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/vda1        25G   19G  5.1G  79% /
# docker images -a
REPOSITORY            TAG                 IMAGE ID            CREATED             SIZE
local_discourse/app   latest              8da0107aba03        2 months ago        2.7GB
discourse/base        2.0.20210415-1332   30e4746e631e        3 months ago        2.23GB
<none>                <none>              1e6bf44c2762        5 months ago        2.46GB
discourse/base        2.0.20201221-2020   c0704d4ce2b4        7 months ago        2.11GB
# /var/discourse/launcher cleanup
WARNING! This will remove all stopped containers.
Are you sure you want to continue? [y/N] y
Total reclaimed space: 0B
WARNING! This will remove all images without at least one container associated to them.
Are you sure you want to continue? [y/N] y
Deleted Images:
untagged: discourse/base:2.0.20201221-2020
untagged: discourse/base@sha256:e18*
deleted: sha256:1e6*
deleted: sha256:a22*
deleted: sha256:c07*
deleted: sha256:9b7*
deleted: sha256:87c*
untagged: discourse/base:2.0.20210415-1332
untagged: discourse/base@sha256:b3b*

Total reclaimed space: 2.456GB
# docker images -a
REPOSITORY            TAG                 IMAGE ID            CREATED             SIZE
local_discourse/app   latest              8da0107aba03        2 months ago        2.7GB
<none>                <none>              30e4746e631e        3 months ago        2.23GB
# docker images 
REPOSITORY            TAG                 IMAGE ID            CREATED             SIZE
local_discourse/app   latest              8da0107aba03        2 months ago        2.7GB
# df -h /
Filesystem      Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/vda1        25G   17G  7.8G  68% /
# docker system df
TYPE                TOTAL               ACTIVE              SIZE                RECLAIMABLE
Images              1                   1                   2.699GB             0B (0%)
Containers          1                   1                   1.13GB              0B (0%)
Local Volumes       0                   0                   0B                  0B
Build Cache         0                   0                   0B                  0B
# df -h /
Filesystem      Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/vda1        25G   17G  7.8G  68% /
# du -shc /var/lib/docker/overlay2/*
4.9G	/var/lib/docker/overlay2/627*
40K 	/var/lib/docker/overlay2/627*-init
2.3G	/var/lib/docker/overlay2/91d*
592M	/var/lib/docker/overlay2/d81*
76M 	/var/lib/docker/overlay2/fb9*
24K 	/var/lib/docker/overlay2/l
7.8G	total
# du -shc /var/lib/docker/overlay2/*/diff
20K 	/var/lib/docker/overlay2/627*-init/diff
1.2G	/var/lib/docker/overlay2/627*/diff
2.3G	/var/lib/docker/overlay2/91d*/diff
592M	/var/lib/docker/overlay2/d81*/diff
76M 	/var/lib/docker/overlay2/fb9*/diff
4.2G	total
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