How to remove docker-volume of (removed) docker-container?

Question

I have tests that runs lots of docker containers. each of them has a volume.

How can I know the volume name that I need to delete?

for example:

~ docker run -d registry:2 
~ docker volume inspect c80fc65a79039d70cf54b3af3ab66b378dec42d0757928ae94277b197d8d8104
[
    {
        "CreatedAt": "2020-08-14T11:33:50Z",
        "Driver": "local",
        "Labels": null,
        "Mountpoint": "/var/lib/docker/volumes/c80fc65a79039d70cf54b3af3ab66b378dec42d0757928ae94277b197d8d8104/_data",
        "Name": "c80fc65a79039d70cf54b3af3ab66b378dec42d0757928ae94277b197d8d8104",
        "Options": null,
        "Scope": "local"
    }
]

After manually stopping and removing the registry:2 container, the volume still exists.

I don't want to delete all volumes because some of them are still in use.

Jacy

Answer 1

You don't need to determine the volume name by yourself. Actually, you have mutliple options here.

You can use the --rm Flag on docker run if you want to clean up

Reference: docs.docker.com: Clean Up (--rm)

If you set the --rm flag, Docker also removes the anonymous volumes associated with the container when the container is removed. This is similar to running docker rm -v my-container. Only volumes that are specified without a name are removed. For example, when running:

Use the docker system prune --volumes command to clean up all volumes not used by at least one container

Reference: docs.docker.com: docker system prune

Remove all unused containers, networks, images (both dangling and unreferenced), and optionally, volumes.

Get the associate volumes

If you really want to get the volumes of a container you can use the snippet

docker inspect -f '{{ .Name }}{{ printf "\n" }}{{ range .Mounts }}{{ printf "\n\t" }}{{ .Type }} {{ if eq .Type "bind" }}{{ .Source }}{{ end }}{{ .Name }} => {{ .Destination }}{{ end }}{{ printf "\n" }}' <continaer-id>

Mimimimic

Answer 2

To clean all the anonymous volumes I am using this:

docker volume ls | awk '{if (length($2)==64 && $2!~/-/ && $2!~/_/) print $2}' | xargs -L1 docker volume rm

if you are wondering why those random volumes exists please read more here

Awlwort

Answer 3

You can either delete unused volume manually:

docker volume rm c80fc65a79039d70cf54b3af3ab66b378dec42d0757928ae94277b197d8d8104

Or prune all unused volumes

docker volume prune

Remove all unused local volumes. Unused local volumes are those which are not referenced by any containers

Clout

how do I know the volume name that I need to delete? thats what im looking for... – Jacy

did you check prune? – Clout

Answer 4

This SO answer might help anyone:

Remove the volumes associated with the container: https://mcmap.net/q/149606/-are-you-trying-to-mount-a-directory-onto-a-file-or-vice-versa.

Sakai

That thread only gives the information how to remove ALL volumes for ALL containers on the machine. That's not what OP wanted. – Shebat