基于Mert Mertce的回答，我编写了以下脚本，包括旋转器和进度条。

然而，自从写了脚本之后，我注意到我们构建服务器上的额外目录是暂时的——也就是说，Docker似乎正在清理，尽管速度很慢。我不知道如果存在删除目录的竞争，Docker是否会感到不安。我们目前的解决方案是使用documentum，但是有很多额外的开销(150+GB)。

#!/bin/bash
[[ $(id -u) -eq 0 ]] || exec sudo /bin/bash -c "$(printf '%q ' "$BASH_SOURCE" "$@")"
progname=$(basename $0)
quiet=false
no_dry_run=false
while getopts ":qn" opt
do
    case "$opt" in
      q)
          quiet=true
          ;;
      n)
          no_dry_run=true
          ;;
      ?)
          echo "unexpected option ${opt}"
          echo "usage: ${progname} [-q|--quiet]"
          echo "    -q: no output"
          echo "    -n: no dry run (will remove unused directories)"
          exit 1
          ;;
    esac
done
shift "$(($OPTIND -1))"

[[ ${quiet} = false ]] || exec /bin/bash -c "$(printf '%q ' "$BASH_SOURCE" "$@")" > /dev/null

echo "Running as: $(id -un)"

progress_bar() {
    local w=80 p=$1;  shift
    # create a string of spaces, then change them to dots
    printf -v dots "%*s" "$(( $p*$w/100 ))" ""; dots=${dots// /.};
    # print those dots on a fixed-width space plus the percentage etc.
    printf "\r\e[K|%-*s| %3d %% %s" "$w" "$dots" "$p" "$*";
}

cd /var/lib/docker/overlay2
echo cleaning in ${PWD}
i=1
spi=1
sp="/-\|"
directories=( $(find . -mindepth 1 -maxdepth 1 -type d | cut -d/ -f2) )
images=( $(docker image ls --all --format "{{.ID}}") )
total=$((${#directories[@]} * ${#images[@]}))
used=()
for d in "${directories[@]}"
do
    for id in ${images[@]}
    do
        ((++i))
        progress_bar "$(( ${i} * 100 / ${total}))" "scanning for used directories ${sp:spi++%${#sp}:1} "
        docker inspect $id | grep -q $d
        if [ $? ]
        then
            used+=("$d")
            i=$(( $i + $(( ${#images[@]} - $(( $i % ${#images[@]} )) )) ))
            break
        fi
    done
done
echo -e "\b\b " # get rid of spinner
i=1
used=($(printf '%s\n' "${used[@]}" | sort -u))
unused=( $(find . -mindepth 1 -maxdepth 1 -type d | cut -d/ -f2) )
for d in "${used[@]}"
do
    ((++i))
    progress_bar "$(( ${i} * 100 / ${#used[@]}))" "scanning for unused directories ${sp:spi++%${#sp}:1} "
    for uni in "${!unused[@]}"
    do
        if [[ ${unused[uni]} = $d ]]
        then
            unset 'unused[uni]'
            break;
        fi
    done
done
echo -e "\b\b " # get rid of spinner
if [ ${#unused[@]} -gt 0 ]
then
    [[ ${no_dry_run} = true ]] || echo "Could remove:  (to automatically remove, use the -n, "'"'"no-dry-run"'"'" flag)"
    for d in "${unused[@]}"
    do
        if [[ ${no_dry_run} = true ]]
        then
            echo "Removing $(realpath ${d})"
            rm -rf ${d}
        else
            echo " $(realpath ${d})"
        fi
    done
    echo Done
else
    echo "All directories are used, nothing to clean up."
fi

Docker使用/var/lib/docker来存储映像、容器和本地命名卷。删除它可能导致数据丢失，并可能停止引擎运行。overlay2子目录专门包含图像和容器的各种文件系统层。

要清除未使用的容器和映像，请参阅docker系统修剪。还有一些选项可以删除卷，甚至是带标签的图像，但默认情况下由于数据丢失的可能性而不启用:

$ docker system prune --help

Usage:  docker system prune [OPTIONS]

Remove unused data

Options:
  -a, --all             Remove all unused images not just dangling ones
      --filter filter   Provide filter values (e.g. 'label=<key>=<value>')
  -f, --force           Do not prompt for confirmation
      --volumes         Prune volumes

剪枝永远不会删除的内容包括:

正在运行的容器(使用docker ps列出它们) 这些容器上的日志(有关限制日志大小的详细信息，请参阅这篇文章) 由这些容器所做的文件系统更改(通过docker diff可见)

此外，在这个垃圾收集过程中，docker可能不会看到在普通docker文件夹之外创建的任何内容。这可能是其他应用写到这个目录，或者docker引擎之前的配置(例如，从AUFS切换到overlay2，或者可能在启用用户名称空间之后)。

What would happen if this advice is ignored and you deleted a single folder like overlay2 out from this filesystem? The container filesystems are assembled from a collection of filesystem layers, and the overlay2 folder is where docker is performing some of these mounts (you'll see them in the output of mount when a container is running). Deleting some of these when they are in use would delete chunks of the filesystem out from a running container, and likely break the ability to start a new container from an impacted image. See this question for one of many possible results.

为了完全刷新docker到一个干净的状态，你可以删除整个目录，而不仅仅是像overlay2这样的子目录:

# danger, read the entire text around this code before running
# you will lose data
sudo -s
systemctl stop docker
rm -rf /var/lib/docker
systemctl start docker
exit

引擎将在完全空的状态下重新启动，这意味着你将失去所有:

图片 容器 名叫卷 用户创建的网络 群状态

我导航到包含overlay2的文件夹。使用du -shc overlay2/*，我发现overlay2中有25G的垃圾。运行docker系统prune -af显示总回收空间:1.687MB，所以我认为它未能清理它。然而，我然后再次运行du -shc overlay2/*，只看到overlay2只有80K，所以它确实工作。

小心，docker撒谎:)。

也许这个文件夹不是你的问题，不要用docker的df -h的结果。 使用下面的命令查看每个文件夹的大小:

echo; pwd; echo; ls -AlhF; echo; du -h --max-depth=1; echo; du-sh

我使用了“docker system prune -a”，它清洗了卷和overlay2下的所有文件

    [root@jasontest volumes]# docker system prune -a
    WARNING! This will remove:
            - all stopped containers
            - all networks not used by at least one container
            - all images without at least one container associated to them
            - all build cache
    Are you sure you want to continue? [y/N] y
    Deleted Images:
    untagged: ubuntu:12.04
    untagged: ubuntu@sha256:18305429afa14ea462f810146ba44d4363ae76e4c8dfc38288cf73aa07485005
    deleted: sha256:5b117edd0b767986092e9f721ba2364951b0a271f53f1f41aff9dd1861c2d4fe
    deleted: sha256:8c7f3d7534c80107e3a4155989c3be30b431624c61973d142822b12b0001ece8
    deleted: sha256:969d5a4e73ab4e4b89222136eeef2b09e711653b38266ef99d4e7a1f6ea984f4
    deleted: sha256:871522beabc173098da87018264cf3e63481628c5080bd728b90f268793d9840
    deleted: sha256:f13e8e542cae571644e2f4af25668fadfe094c0854176a725ebf4fdec7dae981
    deleted: sha256:58bcc73dcf4050a4955916a0dcb7e5f9c331bf547d31e22052f1b5fa16cf63f8
    untagged: osixia/openldap:1.2.1
    untagged: osixia/openldap@sha256:6ceb347feb37d421fcabd80f73e3dc6578022d59220cab717172ea69c38582ec
    deleted: sha256:a562f6fd60c7ef2adbea30d6271af8058c859804b2f36c270055344739c06d64
    deleted: sha256:90efa8a88d923fb1723bea8f1082d4741b588f7fbcf3359f38e8583efa53827d
    deleted: sha256:8d77930b93c88d2cdfdab0880f3f0b6b8be191c23b04c61fa1a6960cbeef3fe6
    deleted: sha256:dd9f76264bf3efd36f11c6231a0e1801c80d6b4ca698cd6fa2ff66dbd44c3683
    deleted: sha256:00efc4fb5e8a8e3ce0cb0047e4c697646c88b68388221a6bd7aa697529267554
    deleted: sha256:e64e6259fd63679a3b9ac25728f250c3afe49dbe457a1a80550b7f1ccf68458a
    deleted: sha256:da7d34d626d2758a01afe816a9434e85dffbafbd96eb04b62ec69029dae9665d
    deleted: sha256:b132dace06fa7e22346de5ca1ae0c2bf9acfb49fe9dbec4290a127b80380fe5a
    deleted: sha256:d626a8ad97a1f9c1f2c4db3814751ada64f60aed927764a3f994fcd88363b659
    untagged: centos:centos7
    untagged: centos@sha256:2671f7a3eea36ce43609e9fe7435ade83094291055f1c96d9d1d1d7c0b986a5d
    deleted: sha256:ff426288ea903fcf8d91aca97460c613348f7a27195606b45f19ae91776ca23d
    deleted: sha256:e15afa4858b655f8a5da4c4a41e05b908229f6fab8543434db79207478511ff7

    Total reclaimed space: 533.3MB
    [root@jasontest volumes]# ls -alth
    total 32K
    -rw-------  1 root root  32K May 23 21:14 metadata.db
    drwx------  2 root root 4.0K May 23 21:14 .
    drwx--x--x 14 root root 4.0K May 21 20:26 ..

我发现这个方法最适合我:

docker image prune --all

默认情况下，Docker不会删除已命名的图像，即使它们未使用。该命令将删除未使用的映像。

注意，图像中的每一层都是/usr/lib/docker/overlay2/文件夹中的一个文件夹。