Get Information About Docker Disk Usage

When troubleshooting problems regarding low system disk space, it can be useful to get information about Docker disk usage. This tutorial demonstrates how to do that.

The docker system command, with df argument, can be used to get information about disk space used by the Docker daemon.

docker system df

Output example:

TYPE            TOTAL     ACTIVE    SIZE      RECLAIMABLE
Images          1         1         141.8MB   0B (0%)
Containers      1         1         1.095kB   0B (0%)
Local Volumes   0         0         0B        0B
Build Cache     0         0         0B        0B

To get more detailed information about disk usage, the -v or --verbose option can be used:

docker system df -v

Output example:

Images space usage:

REPOSITORY   TAG       IMAGE ID       CREATED       SIZE      SHARED SIZE   UNIQUE SIZE   CONTAINERS
nginx        latest    76c69feac34e   3 weeks ago   141.8MB   0B            141.8MB       1

Containers space usage:

CONTAINER ID   IMAGE     COMMAND                  LOCAL VOLUMES   SIZE      CREATED      STATUS          NAMES
40861ca642cb   nginx     "/docker-entrypoint.…"   0               1.09kB    5 days ago   Up 20 minutes   nginx

Local Volumes space usage:

VOLUME NAME   LINKS     SIZE

Build cache usage: 0B

CACHE ID   CACHE TYPE   SIZE      CREATED   LAST USED   USAGE     SHARED

• SHARED SIZE - is the amount of disk space that is shared by an image with another one.
• UNIQUE SIZE - is the amount of disk space that is used only by a specific image.
• SIZE - is the sum of SHARED SIZE and UNIQUE SIZE.