It’s been almost 10 years since my last post… Here is a short one I’ve been meaning to write for a while.
Have you ever encountered an error like this when running docker compose down -v
(formerly docker-compose down -v)?
Docker: Error response from daemon volume is in use
It can happen when you have a container still running
This is something I have seen often enough to prompt writing this blog post. Then next thing I usually try is docker compose ps
to see if any containers are still running.
If you have stopped all containters and it is still complaining the next thing to try is to remove all stopped containers with this command thanks to (LinPy on stackoverflow)
docker rm -f $(docker ps -a -q)
You can also use the docker system prune command. It will remove all unused:
This command is also useful to run periodically, especially after tinkering with Dockerfiles as there are bound to be a few vestigial image layers hanging around.
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