Remaining disk space on docker overlay filesystem
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I'm new to linux an I installed armbian to an sd card and everything works fine.
The SD-Card is 64GB.
Then I installed
docker.io
, docker-compose
and portainer
, nothing else.
When I check for disk space with lsblk:
# lsblk
NAME MAJ:MIN RM SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINT
mmcblk0 179:0 0 59.5G 0 disk
├─mmcblk0p1 179:1 0 512M 0 part /boot
└─mmcblk0p2 179:2 0 58.4G 0 part /
mmcblk1 179:32 0 14.6G 0 disk
mmcblk1boot0 179:64 0 4M 1 disk
mmcblk1boot1 179:96 0 4M 1 disk
zram0 254:0 0 50M 0 disk /var/log
zram1 254:1 0 929.4M 0 disk [SWAP]
Then with df
:
# df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
udev 796M 0 796M 0% /dev
tmpfs 186M 8.0M 178M 5% /run
/dev/mmcblk0p2 58G 2.2G 55G 4% /
tmpfs 930M 0 930M 0% /dev/shm
tmpfs 5.0M 4.0K 5.0M 1% /run/lock
tmpfs 930M 0 930M 0% /tmp
/dev/mmcblk0p1 511M 59M 453M 12% /boot
/dev/zram0 49M 7.0M 38M 16% /var/log
overlay 58G 2.2G 55G 4% /var/lib/docker/overlay2/b28da5a318945ac7ae1d17d26a635edb9a662c6116dea37fb4f6c13e1c76d7d2/merged
tmpfs 186M 0 186M 0% /run/user/0
Why are there 2 remaining 55 GB (/dev/mmcblk0p2
and the overlay filesystem
)?
Does this mean that I can only use the 55 GB space on the /var/lib/docker/overlay2/.../merged
folder?
Asked by Jimmy
(83 rep)
Apr 15, 2023, 04:04 PM
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