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In the last section I'd mentioned that I cleared out all the stopped containers on my machine.

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So I thought you might be curious on how I did that.

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If I run Docker P.S. dash dash all right now I can see that I currently have two stopped containers

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so these containers right now are essentially just taking up space on my computer and so it might be

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to my advantage to try to entirely delete them and not just leave them in this stop state to delete

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all these containers.

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I can run a docker system prune I'll then be presented with a warning here.

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So just to be clear this is not only going to delete stopped containers it's also going to delete a

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couple of either items as well most notably your build cache the build cache is any image that you fetch

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from Docker Hub.

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So after running Docker prune you'll have to read download images from Docker Hub which is not a really

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big deal.

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Just be aware that you're gonna have to wait a couple minutes.

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The next time you start up a container.

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Not really a couple of minutes but a couple of seconds really so we can enter in it.

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Yes.

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Hit enter and then it will tell us about the deleted containers and I'll tell me also how much space

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has been reclaimed by deleting those resources.

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If I then do another Docker P.S. dash all I'll see that I do not have any stopped containers whatsoever.

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I really recommend you keep the docker system prune command in mind because anytime that you're kind

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of done working with Docker for a period of weeks or months or if you decide you just don't want to

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work with Docker again at all you will want to run this command to delete any containers that are still

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just kind of sitting around eating up space.

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All right let's take another quick break and we'll continue in the next section.