Show docker disk usage
API 1.25+ The client and daemon API must both be at least 1.25 to use this command. Use the docker version command on the client to check your client and daemon API versions.
docker system df [OPTIONS]
| Name, shorthand | Default | Description |
--format | Pretty-print images using a Go template | |
--verbose , -v | Show detailed information on space usage |
| Command | Description |
|---|---|
| docker system | Manage Docker |
| Command | Description |
| docker system df | Show docker disk usage |
| docker system events | Get real time events from the server |
| docker system info | Display system-wide information |
| docker system prune | Remove unused data |
The docker system df command displays information regarding the amount of disk space used by the docker daemon.
By default the command will just show a summary of the data used:
$ docker system df
TYPE TOTAL ACTIVE SIZE RECLAIMABLE
Images 5 2 16.43 MB 11.63 MB (70%)
Containers 2 0 212 B 212 B (100%)
Local Volumes 2 1 36 B 0 B (0%)
A more detailed view can be requested using the -v, --verbose flag:
$ docker system df -v
Images space usage:
REPOSITORY TAG IMAGE ID CREATED SIZE SHARED SIZE UNIQUE SIZE CONTAINERS
my-curl latest b2789dd875bf 6 minutes ago 11 MB 11 MB 5 B 0
my-jq latest ae67841be6d0 6 minutes ago 9.623 MB 8.991 MB 632.1 kB 0
<none> <none> a0971c4015c1 6 minutes ago 11 MB 11 MB 0 B 0
alpine latest 4e38e38c8ce0 9 weeks ago 4.799 MB 0 B 4.799 MB 1
alpine 3.3 47cf20d8c26c 9 weeks ago 4.797 MB 4.797 MB 0 B 1
Containers space usage:
CONTAINER ID IMAGE COMMAND LOCAL VOLUMES SIZE CREATED STATUS NAMES
4a7f7eebae0f alpine:latest "sh" 1 0 B 16 minutes ago Exited (0) 5 minutes ago hopeful_yalow
f98f9c2aa1ea alpine:3.3 "sh" 1 212 B 16 minutes ago Exited (0) 48 seconds ago anon-vol
Local Volumes space usage:
NAME LINKS SIZE
07c7bdf3e34ab76d921894c2b834f073721fccfbbcba792aa7648e3a7a664c2e 2 36 B
my-named-vol 0 0 B
SHARED SIZE is the amount of space that an image shares with another one (i.e. their common data)UNIQUE SIZE is the amount of space that is only used by a given imageSIZE is the virtual size of the image, it is the sum of SHARED SIZE and UNIQUE SIZE
Note: Network information is not shown because it doesn’t consume the disk space.
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https://docs.docker.com/engine/reference/commandline/system_df/