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Published on Nov. 29, 2023

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How to change docker's image storage location

Have you ever been in a situation where docker images used up all the space in your root partition?

Docker by default stores it's data in /var/lib/docker. To change this you can update the /etc/docker/daemon.json as follows:

{
    "data-root": "/some/other/path"
}