When installing Docker, I would like to tell it where to put the ProgramData\Docker stuff. @27Bslash6 Doesn't that apply to Linux containers? As I have now learned C:\ProgramData\Docker contains all the images\containers\volumes After a few experiments my C: filled up completly. Thank you very much! Send feedback to Docker Community Slack channels #docker-for-mac or #docker-for-windows. Where I can find a list with all docker files cause I have to delete the one by one, The previous post are outdated. I have tried many times but failed. The text was updated successfully, but these errors were encountered: You can use: Plugins: So no need to support the "graph" option for Linux containers. privacy statement. Additional environment details (AWS, VirtualBox, physical, etc. Containers: 0 I see. Problem after uninstall Docker beta (aka deleting ProgramData\Docker), https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/virtualization/windowscontainers/manage-docker/configure-docker-daemon#manual-installation, Unable to change location of Docker images, Fail to move windowsfilter directory from "C:\ProgramData\docker\" to "E:\Docker" using daemon.json. Just an update for anyone looking at this in 2018, the graph option in the daemon file via the docker interface doesn't work any more. @nickteeple that setting is for Hyper-V version, which is legacy. Have a question about this project? So, for WSL 2 based engine you need to move docker wsl distro. When you turn on WSL2 there is no such option anymore. Images: 3 Docker version is 17.05.0-ce-rc1. tried this today and it generated a crash report, I tried graph and data-root. Network: nat null overlay transparent I roughly followed the steps for moving the C:\Users folder and wanted to used "mklink" to link it back while in Windows "Save Mode". Stopped: 0 I submitted a crash report with the diagnostic id: FD1B2CD5-1A37-44C0-A104-9AF85ECFE375/2018-06-15_18-27-40. Actually, the biggest storage consumption comes from the .docker folder that will be on your home directory. Please re-open or comment if the above does not work or if you prefer a different solution. Can I relocate the NavContainerHelper extensions folder? You signed in with another tab or window. So I decided to move either C:\ProgramData or C:\ProgramData\Docker to another drive. Sign up for a free GitHub account to open an issue and contact its maintainers and the community. Logging Driver: json-file Also, daemon.json file in the above location disappears once I start "Docker for Windows". By clicking Sign up for GitHub, you agree to our terms of service and Put "C:\ProgramData\Docker" on a different drive? I'm using Docker Community Edition - Version 17.06.0-ce-win18 (12627). Where can I configure Docker to put all the ProgramData\Docker stuff? I tried only providing data-root or graph. For non-development purposes, you should use the Powershell installer. Describe the results you expected: CPUs: 4 This looks promising for your situation: #5829 Please let us know if you try it. Storage Driver: windowsfilter Those directories cannot be moved since they contain special system files, like bootmgr that makes copy operations fail. And then set the location. I cannot change the location of the images. Switching to Linux and back to Windows container did the trick for some reasons. @rn please re-open the issue or provide (new) solution steps. C:\>docker run --rm microsoft/sample-dotnet docker: Error response from daemon: container 627395c13812bb3aa5c1395b748f573807cbb60d3c73d4554b5c174426bd9929 encountered an error during CreateContainer: failure in a Windows system call: The handle is invalid. (0x6). I can't use the default location since my SSD is only 60 GB whereas my HDD is 2 TB. "data-root": "D:\ProgramData\Docker", https://docs.docker.com/engine/reference/commandline/dockerd/#daemon-configuration-file, Doesn't work here unless typed as: Your provided solution steps don't work and people are still experiencing this issue. The latest beta (Beta34) now allows editing the Daemon config via the UI under Settings -> Daemon and toggle to advanced. Robocopy failed on so many levels, that I gave up moving it e.g. `, Another option would be to create/modify the C:\ProgramData\Docker\config\daemon.json file as referenced in the getting started guide here: [https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/virtualization/windowscontainers/docker/configure_docker_daemon]. No difference. mklink /j C:\ProgramData\Docker D:\ProgramData\Docker. (no getting a larger disk is not an option). Any above solutions do not work for the newest versions of docker desktop (like 2.3.0.3) and win10 2004 with WSL2 enabled: Using Docker Desktop 2.2.0.5 - It's in the settings of the desktop app under resources -> advanced -> disk image location. ID: RJXG:2S6W:7T3W:DOJK:LM7Z:IQPU:SE6H:EOQO:RNDF:TIA2:P3F4:ZWXZ Just do a junction to another Drive. Pull large docker image (e.g. I have tested this running in the context of the service account as well as as a logged in user. C:\>docker run --rm microsoft/sample-dotnet docker: Error response from daemon: container 627395c13812bb3aa5c1395b748f573807cbb60d3c73d4554b5c174426bd9929 encountered an error during CreateContainer: failure in a Windows system call: The handle is invalid. I've tried setting the "graph" option and it seems to work. (0x6). I did it before installing Docker for windows. I have restarted the Docker daemon after doing so and docker info still points at C:\ProgramData\docker. ): Awsome. If you don't, you'll end up with something like this after dedup optimization runs: All that you need are those wsl commands. @XiaohuaRen You can't move your existing images onto a different drive, as there are special system files involved. Architecture: x86_64 to your account. physical machine. A word of caution though: If you plan on using Deduplication on the volume, make sure you exclude the Docker location. This will put all your images, layers and containers in a different location but leave the config in its original location. Or rather, this seems to work only for the logged in user. Shout if you need / want me to provide any other details. Kernel Version: 10.0 14393 (14393.447.amd64fre.rs1_release_inmarket.161102-0100) I cannot change the location of the Docker installation on the windows. This helps our team focus on active issues. This issue is really annoying, I think Docker should let users set the data-root manually since many docker images are very large, normally the C disk is small. fyi the option to specify the vm data directory is exposed in the GUI settings as of my fresh install.. Docker Root Dir: D:\ProgramData\Docker For me these do the job: Is data-root option needed for this solution? DfW did not start up having deomon.json with different storage point. Configuration option? Thanks. moved issue over from docker/docker #27899: With the new windows containers, I started playing around. Everytime it crashed and I needed to reset to factory defaults. Server Version: 1.12.2-cs2-ws-beta OSType: windows My C disk is full. Another data point: Changing Settings > Advanced > Disk image location in Docker for Windows 2.0.0.3 also does not work. Either way, I certainly don't expect Windows Containers to be using "MobyLinux". At least for Windows images & containers (On Windows host) this is very much still a problem. I am experimenting with the docker windows container services and have sucessfully pulled "windowsservercore" and used "chocolatey" do get some stuff installed. Debug Mode (client): false Can I move the ProgramData\Docker to a different disk? The windowsservercore docker image is large and filled up my C: drive completely. If you don't, you'll end up with something like this after dedup optimization runs: I am running the Docker daemon as a non-user account (service account). 127.0.0.0/8 Links/junctions won't help if you have existing data under $DOCKERDATA/image/windowsfilter and $DOCKERDATA/windowsfilter. Here's an example not using Docker for Windows: @rn the "graph" option seems to only work when docker (for windows) is configured for Windows containers. Windows: Update: the 'graph' property is now data-root, e.g. Edit: I've just realised that the containers are stored in MobyLinuxVM. I re-installed docker for windows and now I have this issue. Total Memory: 31.96 GiB Closed issues are locked after 30 days of inactivity. Closing this issue. Debug Mode (server): false It's possible there's a tool that can move those files, but I'm not aware of one, and I am not sure Docker is robust against doing that. /lifecycle locked. Operating System: Windows 10 Enterprise This is a nasty bug on Windows, please use Docker on Linux. When running Docker, I would like to "move" the ProgramData\Docker stuff to another disk. Works. Adding C:\ProgramData\docker\config\daemon.json with the option above does not work. "data-root": "D:\ProgramData\Docker". So all I need to do is move this to a different location on the machine. Docker on Linux doesn't let you run Windows containers. windowsservercore) to fill up C: drive, wait for explosion - windows is not happy if C: has 0 bytes free ;-), copy C:\ProgramData\Docker to different disk via "robocopy C:\ProgramData\Docker D:\ProgramData\Docker /MIR /COPYALL", %PROGRAMDATA%\docker\config\daemon.json - seems like this file not read anymore. Swarm: inactive Obviously, with that the configuration also disappears. This is on Windows Server 2016 Datacenter edition. It worked before. Security Options: works for me: @vikalyan did you install using "Docker for Windows" or using the Powershell installer? Before installation, do a junction too for C:\Program Files\Docker to another location. If I set the "graph" option when docker (for windows) is configured for Linux containers then docker never starts - it hangs during startup and the MobyLinuxVM machine consumes CPU when normally the usage is at 0%. Escape the backslash "data-root": "D:\\ProgramData\\Docker". A word of caution though: If you plan on using Deduplication on the volume, make sure you exclude the Docker location. Name: RCDX8500 Like below. Paused: 0 (if you want newer Docker versions, use the manual installation instructions here: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/virtualization/windowscontainers/manage-docker/configure-docker-daemon#manual-installation). @nickteeple it works! Description This doesn't seem to work. I cannot change the location of the images. I cannot change the location of the Docker installation on the windows. Based on the previous comments, what you can do is stop Docker, edit %PROGRAMDATA%\docker\config\daemon.json with something like: You'll have to repull your images, but after this you should be clear to delete %PROGRAMDATA%\docker\image\windowsfilter and %PROGRAMDATA%\docker\windowsfilter as the image layers will now live in D:\DockerData\image\windowsfilter and D:\DockerData\windowsfilter. My C disk is full. Already on GitHub? If you have found a problem that seems similar to this, please open a new issue. Finally, setting "data-root": "D:\\ProgramData\\Docker" works. ..On Windows 10, version 1903 to have docker in drive d cause drive c is full, I don t know how Docker migrate to drive c. Have a full C now. Windows Containers don't use VHDs as far as I know, but that might depend on the isolation mode, as I've only really used Windows Containers on Windows Server. Also, before installation too, go to your Hyper-V Manager and set the default location for Virtual disks and virtual machine configuration. @BraINstinct0 data-root option is not needed. Sign in Insecure Registries: Volume: local I have found changing the default location of Virtual Hard Disk works well and creates the images in specified folder. Simply do as documented and set the "data-root" in %programdata%\docker\config\daemon.json, e.g. So, in the end, are there ANY way to force docker to store data NOT ON disk C ? 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