Dangling docker volumes


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I noticed that my server has many many dangling docker volumes:

 

root@Server-1:~# docker volume ls --filter dangling=true
DRIVER              VOLUME NAME
local               0ba5094dffcf33bd70ec9bb78ed0d3641a4fb64e0c791429b38df5153a66af50
local               0bae1eb00b48ae1ef5355af7dd7eca6f4f3ac13ce800b66a5102479a6859673c
local               1c45b2c3475f654a3105aa0190e4afa61af2683a87969685e892246f54257d38
local               1eb893aac8214c83c0c1073958583c41566ef174421bc1b05da931ea37884e7a
local               1fc2714cc077fec6a8bf8d73a9c6a0dcca5f2dca6e0eabb41accd94d043645d8
local               2b54d36658f495bab15960e2551fed5b7b56f309a89cf86530dfca1241ac96ea
local               3c2940350c48c07ccb49c1468f775df8d0dcbfbe8676c10fccc1e68b5b86dbee
local               3cb4872b5aceb2652f7aebdbb3ba2d8570c2a646b748f516077c141429c5d648
local               3dd25a2b301027698e470040271ccc15ce128e07d05d6318d7804ca53e0ac1b5
local               3eb3b12de3266f890fbed2dc5817b924b1be22c7cf79558aad83b61dc759894b
local               4cedcb55b0e0d461729aee3b3edff6bc6e0917348a8554ddead92dc5d4c6ea97
local               5daada5a741ec7b46b7861f1bbafce4e2cec6eec6c587714f5cebdbbe6f4aa31
local               6a499eef70c54c7ba5404cd1a9cb04209d4225d53ce754d3ef90d84c37519a4a
local               6ca7dc1f22d83997cc3de9aca32ca426710d4592617c743dcf64df4d51901284
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root@Server-1:~#

 

Why are the volumes left dangling?

Can I safely delete them using docker volume prune?

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12 hours ago, ptr727 said:

Can I safely delete them using docker volume prune?

Yes

12 hours ago, ptr727 said:

Why are the volumes left dangling?

 

Common reason would be that either you changed the Tag on the repository (eg: To roll-back an image), or the dockerHub author changed the FROM line in the dockerfile to reference a different base image.

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Seems like a lot of dangling volumes for the once or twice I changed a tag, and I can't control what the container authe does.

Should these not be cleaned up the same way orphan containers are detected and cleaned?

 

I'll delete them for now.

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