How to Troubleshoot a Full Unraid Docker Image

[@Nick-qz8do]

Finally someone that gives a decent answer to the question 'why is my docker image growing'. I browsed the internet for answers but it always comes down to 'you misconfigured something' without helping. Thank man!

[@XJ076A]

I just started using unraid just last week. Your tutorials are always fantastic and easy to follow. This actually came at a good time as I just hit that 70% warning earlier for my docker image earlier today. Thanks for this!

[@squadpro]

Does this still work in 2024? Does this work for data in the docker-img from containers which have been removed in the past? My docker image has a size of 48 Gigs while it shows that there are 18.12 Gb from images, 1,8 Gb from containers, 2.2 Gb from Local modules and 0B from building chache. Somewhere in between i have lost 20 Gb. Could this be related to the docker-compose plugin?

[@EarthStarz]

Hopefully, space invader can update the script?

[@omishgaming]

I spent 5 hours last weekend trying to figure this out and gave up. I doubled the docker size and called it a day. Now to go inspect all my downloader apps for hidden files!

[@gregfrplockone1466]

Thank you so much space invader, I had %70 docker filled from nzbget and after I followed your video I fixed my docker image back to 28%. I hope to see more videos in the future and even old videos updated as unraid continues to evolve.

[@CYBTHOR]

You are an absolute LIFE SAVER!!!! I love all your videos. Thank you for your hard work and taking care of the UnRaid community!

[@FixerSevScorch]

I have been doing lots of container development on my Unraid host which was (unbeknownst to me) spawning lots of unconnected volumes. Your script lead me straight to the problem, and even had a nice option to remove them! cheers mate

[@gadget069]

I'm completely new to unRAID. I'm finding your videos extremely helpful. Hopefully this script will still work today.

[@ksodano06]

Another excellent video explaining inner workings of Unraid. Thanks mate!👍

[@pierrecastanets1974]

I’m always impressed how quickly your system responds. My loads and installs are not that fast.

[@johnlewis6226]

An elegant solution to a common problem

[@notfastjustfurious1554]

Tried the script but it could not run. It got stuck on "line 6: /tmp/user.scripts/tmpScripts/Docker Size/script: cannot execute: required file not found"

[@sionzhang6989]

Hello, I want to consult with me in unraid install the latest apple system "12.31" after the auxiliary function of the Settings panel can use at first, but after a period of time, will be unable to open, the system will prompt "failed to load the preferences panel auxiliary functions", can be restored after restart the system, but after a period of time will be unable to open again, Please help me. Thank you

[@frozendevl]

Thank you for all your hard putting out all of these informative videos! You are my go to for Unraid issues/questions!

[@HitcherUK]

Brilliant script. I had some orphaned images I didn't even know about but they're now histroy.

[@dannykempkes4957]

Great video, again! And thank you for the script, will come in handy sometime. I had this issue before. It took me some time to identify where the problem was. But ended up just moving the data in the docker terminal to the correct location and changing the config.

[@roderickvanrhyn2073]

The info that your videos show is great, but I have a question that relates to one of your older videos. I am writing it here so that it may be seen quicker. I am running Sonarr, Radarr, and Lidarr. Are the passwords in the security section the same for each? or do I need to set a seperate password for each?

[@garethparkman3677]

Thank you very much. Your script just cleared up 40gb from my docker img file

[@whopua]

Only one on my whole list had a name. Is there something in the script that needs editing or how do I match the container ID?

[@single-t]

Wow. Figured I should check despite the confidence, nay, arrogance of believing it would find nothing. Instead, it found 10 orphans volumes and recovered a 1+ GB of space.

[@d0wns0wth]

Can you make a video on crowdsec and integration with SWAG? thanks

[@HilltopGardensMI]

So is this method outdated now with the recent UnRaid release? I ran "scrub" on the dockers tab before running this script. Ran script and it found NO rogue containers.

[@FlightdeckJohnny]

My docker image increases some nights during an hour and then get back to normal, so I suppose some job is done in one of the dockers and then is deleted, so I am searching in the diagnostics zip for evidence, but no hit yet. Anyone knows where to find info about it? It is not in the docker log file unfortunately

[@michaelyounge5743]

Thanks for your video I hav ebeen using them over the last year, I am have a problem with my memory running at 100% and i thought that your script would help me solving the problem . however your script found that i have 2 Home assistant containers 1450MB & 1160. This i now believe that HA could be the problem as it pinned to CPU 3-5. Do you think that this could be my problem?

[@bogosbinted896]

Hi there. I followed your guide for setting up a docker container for a Minecraft server. I was wondering if there was a way to download the World file from the docker files to my local windows machine that i play Minecraft on. Thanks!

[@onitramt77]

Thanks for another informative video! But unfortunately this didnt work for me. When it lists my containers/volumes almost all of them show little data used. It does have a long list of volumes though. I ran it again with both cleanup options set to yes. I didnt have any ophaned images and it cleared the long list of volumes but it only freed up less than 1MB of space. So my docker utilization is still high at 76 %. I added another 10GB to my docker image size which brought it down to 60%. I know this isnt a fix but at least Im not getting high usage warnings until I can fix this. Any suggestions from you or the community would be appreciated. Thanks!

[@Charles_Finley77]

did you ever figure it out? im having the save problem now

[@onitramt77]

@@Charles_Finley77 Nope, sorry.

[@Charles_Finley77]

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[@Charles_Finley77]

I know this might be all late for you and your case, but I figured it out…. My Node IP address was not the same as my server ip address and that’s why my docker container kept getting full … As soon as I matched them, ny docker containers where from 75 GBs (75%) full to just over 6% full .. almost instantly

[@onitramt77]

@@Charles_Finley77 Node IP ??? Could you elaborate a little more please. Im not sure what you mean.

[@defyiant]

this was helpful and fixed what was going on with my docker image

[@countryboy_71]

Hoping that you're still monitoring comments on this one! Love your videos, first off...I ran your script but it is not showing me one of the important sections..."List of docker volumes, the container which they are connected to their size". I will note that I am running UR, v.6.12.8. Is there a way to fix this? And, as I write this, it should also be noted that I am running with datasets (ZFS)

[@acrusso1]

Can you do a video about mapping temp files/downloads/tdarr to memory vs nvme/SSD And maybe how to bypass the 50% memory threshold for docker

[@fallenfederation2643]

Would there be any reason to not run the remove portion of the script as regular maintenance? Thanks for your help buddy!

[@gamer1xbox360]

Once again awesome work and well explained!

[@FaiIix]

your videos are sooooo good! keep it please. you saved my life multiple times ❤

[@magicmanj32]

on your main server Ed, how many containers do you run, I have 42 @20gb used on my docker image

[@richardgeniesse6144]

Great video, but it did not lead to finding the cause of my issue. I am not sure why, but I had to use the portainer unraid app which eventually leads you to add a container to run the application. I had 5 volumes there that were listed as unused under the volumes section once that was running. Prior to this, your script didn't see anything abnormal. I even deleted all my containers and the space continued to not go down. Now it's gone down from 34G used to 2G after those unused volume removal. I'd be curious what portainer does on that unused volume screen, as it might be handy to update yours to catch that scenario. Edit: wild amount of typos.

[@rnwood13]

I ran into this issue as well. I tried portainer based on your comment and, indeed, saw the unused volumes. There is a Github issue that 'docker volume prune' doesn't work as it used to, so you need to do 'docker volume prune --all' to remove all volumes. Not sure the full impact of this, but I tried it and it reduced my docker.img from 55GiB down to 5GiB! I suppose one could modify the script to include the '--all' but, again, not sure the impact of doing so on a regular basis.

[@richardgeniesse6144]

​@@rnwood13thanks, that's good to know if I ever see mine grow again. I don't know enough either if having -all on there each time could be harmful.

[@CJICantLie]

Along the lines of this video, could you also do a video on how to fix Docker log file full errors, or full log files in general?

[@Danny_Daemon]

Amazing Video this helped me soo much to get clean up the docker image!!

[@fredrickolshausen1348]

This script is brilliant - thanks so much!

[@kidnose2231]

You're an absolute champion man, thank you so much

[@konstantinoskydonakis7333]

Great video once again. Running the script, I ended up with hundreds of non connected volumes of 0 size such as: ID 0ac1866ead4dfebdad46e1bac609e620269b813058b182adf32c0c8f8261fa6d This volume connected to has a size of 0 Is it safe to remove them all?

[@boriss282]

im also have missed name for all my containers , Dont remove them

[@tonydie1218]

I have the same problem too, list of 0 size volumes connected to nothing

[@bes12000]

Thanks, removing orphaned images seems to have cleared out mine, lol ..subscribed.

[@IEnjoyCreatingVideos]

Great video Ed! Thanks for always sharing with us!👍💖😎JP

[@votezoidberg2020]

Pro tip, enabling DLNA on Plex shoots your docker from 600MB to 15GB and causes the docker image size issue quite often.

[@Marthisdil]

Thanks for the script Spaceinvader. My Cache is showing 83% full...ran your script, and it didn't identify any volumes with large bits of data on them....so not sure where to look next.

[@judesanson7369]

So helpful and exactly what I needed. Thank you!!

[@MrPhilipgood]

It's almost as if you knew I was having this very issue!!

[@Nicecube3D]

Very good video, but I can't find why my image is 100% filled even when using the script. My docker image is 100GB and it's always full.

[@slatBANG]

All of my containers are a reasonable size, EXCEPT the Binhex ones. Does anyone else have a similar problem and a solution for it?

[@SHOWSTOPPER1000]

So 200GB just got removed, as i am panicking it does not look like anything was removed of my actual data. There was atleast over 30 volumes unused that was removed XD

[@BartTech]

Big thumbs up.. Thanks.

[@jasonlee3247]

Would’ve been a good idea to show beginners how to move that 18G download out of the docker image and on to the array to avoid having to download it again.

[@leptoid]

Thanks. Very helpful.

[@geekazoid]

Nice script. Appreciated.

[@sonykhosa5774]

life safer, thank you!

[@kennethmadsen6474]

Excellent!

[@craigdavo]

Nice, my docker image at 75% is always bugging me. 👍

[@AceBoy2099]

You must be a reader,I was just looking for this 2 nights ago....

[@HarbAlarm]

Thank you so much o/

[@RayHorn5128088056]

Get Portainer and call it a day.