Docker error : no space left on device

Question

I installed docker on a Debian 7 machine in the following way

$ echo deb http://get.docker.io/ubuntu docker main > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/docker.list
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Answer 1

The current best practice is

docker system prune

This will remove:

- all stopped containers
- all volumes not used by at least one container
- all networks not used by at least one container
- all dangling images

This is permanent.

Make sure you read this answer, re: Volumes

You may also be interested in this answer, if docker system prune does not work for you.