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Freeing Up the Resources

Explore how to monitor and clean up Docker resources like containers, images, volumes, and networks to free disk space. Understand commands to stop containers, prune unused Docker objects, and safely delete volumes without losing critical database data. This lesson helps you efficiently manage Docker storage while working with MySQL and Adminer.

Cleaning up

Docker can use significant quantities of disk space. We can see the information about the amount of disk space used. Scary usage statistics are returned when entering:

docker system df

To view all containers, both running and stopped, enter:

docker container ls -a

Note that containers are usually small because they are ...