podman-system-reset - Reset storage back to initial state
podman system reset [options]
podman system reset removes all pods, containers, images, networks and volumes, and machines.
This command must be run before changing any of the following fields in the containers.conf or storage.conf files: driver, static_dir, tmp_dir or volume_path.
podman system reset reads the current configuration and attempts to remove all of the relevant configurations. If the administrator modified the configuration files first, podman system reset might not be able to clean up the previous storage.
--force,
-f
Do not prompt for confirmation
--help,
-h
Print usage statement
$ podman system
reset
WARNING! This will remove:
- all containers
- all pods
- all images
- all networks
- all build cache
- all machines
- all volumes
Are you sure you want to continue? [y/N] y
Switching
rootless user from VFS driver to overlay with
fuse-overlayfs
If the user ran rootless containers without having the
fuse-overlayfs program installed, podman defaults
to the vfs storage in their home directory. If they
want to switch to use fuse-overlay, they must install the
fuse-overlayfs package. The user needs to reset the storage
to use overlayfs by default. Execute podman system
reset as the user first to remove the VFS storage. Now
the user can edit the /etc/containers/storage.conf
to make any changes if necessary. If the system’s
default was already overlay, then no changes are
necessary to switch to fuse-overlayfs. Podman looks for the
existence of fuse-overlayfs to use it when set in the
overlay driver, only falling back to vfs if the
program does not exist. Users can run podman info
to ensure Podman is using fuse-overlayfs and the overlay
driver.
podman(1), podman-system(1), fuse-overlayfs(1), containers-storage.conf(5)
November 2019, Originally compiled by Dan Walsh (dwalsh at redhat dot com)