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Glasnhost
Glasnhost

Reputation: 1135

can I move a single docker image to another directory?

I'd like to keep some less used images on an external disk. Is that possible? Or should I move all images to an external disk changing some base path?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 1666

Answers (1)

David Maze
David Maze

Reputation: 159722

All of the Docker images are stored in an opaque, backend-specific format inside the /var/lib/docker directory. You can't move some of the images to a different location, only the entire Docker storage tree. See for example How to change the docker image installation directory?.

If you have images you only rarely use, you can docker rmi them for now and then docker pull them again from Docker Hub or another repository when you need them.

Upvotes: 1

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