MongoDB in Docker container runs out of space for journal

Question

I am using Docker for a test environment inside a VirtualBox virtual machine on Windows. Having the MongoDB container run out of disk space would not be a problem if removing and recreating the container fixed the problem, but this is not the case. How can I get this space back? Right now I'm destroying the VirtualBox VM and rebuilding it to recover, but this is long and painful. Thanks for your attention.

Answer 1

Simply remove unneeded images by first having a look of which images are there with

docker ps -a

and remove unneeded ones with

docker rmi imageid|name

Keep in mind though that images depend on each other - you have to find out which are the ones you really want to remove. The good news is that unneeded dependencies are automatically removed.