github.com/flavio/docker@v0.1.3-0.20170117145210-f63d1a6eec47/docs/reference/commandline/volume_prune.md (about) 1 --- 2 title: "volume prune" 3 description: "Remove unused volumes" 4 keywords: "volume, prune, delete" 5 --- 6 7 <!-- This file is maintained within the docker/docker Github 8 repository at https://github.com/docker/docker/. Make all 9 pull requests against that repo. If you see this file in 10 another repository, consider it read-only there, as it will 11 periodically be overwritten by the definitive file. Pull 12 requests which include edits to this file in other repositories 13 will be rejected. 14 --> 15 16 # volume prune 17 18 ```markdown 19 Usage: docker volume prune [OPTIONS] 20 21 Remove all unused volumes 22 23 Options: 24 -f, --force Do not prompt for confirmation 25 --help Print usage 26 ``` 27 28 Remove all unused volumes. Unused volumes are those which are not referenced by any containers 29 30 Example output: 31 32 ```bash 33 $ docker volume prune 34 WARNING! This will remove all volumes not used by at least one container. 35 Are you sure you want to continue? [y/N] y 36 Deleted Volumes: 37 07c7bdf3e34ab76d921894c2b834f073721fccfbbcba792aa7648e3a7a664c2e 38 my-named-vol 39 40 Total reclaimed space: 36 B 41 ``` 42 43 ## Related information 44 45 * [volume create](volume_create.md) 46 * [volume ls](volume_ls.md) 47 * [volume inspect](volume_inspect.md) 48 * [volume rm](volume_rm.md) 49 * [Understand Data Volumes](https://docs.docker.com/engine/tutorials/dockervolumes/) 50 * [system df](system_df.md) 51 * [container prune](container_prune.md) 52 * [image prune](image_prune.md) 53 * [network prune](network_prune.md) 54 * [system prune](system_prune.md)