github.com/stchris/docker@v1.4.2-0.20150106053530-1510a324dbd5/docs/man/docker-info.1.md (about) 1 % DOCKER(1) Docker User Manuals 2 % Docker Community 3 % JUNE 2014 4 # NAME 5 docker-info - Display system-wide information 6 7 # SYNOPSIS 8 **docker info** 9 10 11 # DESCRIPTION 12 This command displays system wide information regarding the Docker installation. 13 Information displayed includes the number of containers and images, pool name, 14 data file, metadata file, data space used, total data space, metadata space used 15 , total metadata space, execution driver, and the kernel version. 16 17 The data file is where the images are stored and the metadata file is where the 18 meta data regarding those images are stored. When run for the first time Docker 19 allocates a certain amount of data space and meta data space from the space 20 available on the volume where `/var/lib/docker` is mounted. 21 22 # OPTIONS 23 There are no available options. 24 25 # EXAMPLES 26 27 ## Display Docker system information 28 29 Here is a sample output: 30 31 # docker info 32 Containers: 14 33 Images: 52 34 Storage Driver: aufs 35 Root Dir: /var/lib/docker/aufs 36 Dirs: 80 37 Execution Driver: native-0.2 38 Kernel Version: 3.13.0-24-generic 39 Operating System: Ubuntu 14.04 LTS 40 CPUs: 1 41 Total Memory: 2 GiB 42 43 # HISTORY 44 April 2014, Originally compiled by William Henry (whenry at redhat dot com) 45 based on docker.com source material and internal work. 46 June 2014, updated by Sven Dowideit <SvenDowideit@home.org.au>