How To Remove Orphaned Volumes In Docker

Let’s break this down.

First, if you want to see a list of the dangling volumes you can simply run:

docker volume ls -qf dangling=true

docker volume ls lists the volumes and -qf means list only the ids and filter on dangling=true.

To delete these volumes we’ll pass them in to the docker volume rm function which takes a volume id or list of ids. The final command is:

docker volume rm $(docker volume ls -qf dangling=true)