1podman-system-reset(1)() podman-system-reset(1)()
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6 podman-system-reset - Reset storage back to initial state
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10 podman system reset [options]
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14 podman system reset removes all pods, containers, images and volumes.
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17 This command must be run before changing any of the following fields in
18 the containers.conf or storage.conf files: driver, static_dir, tmp_dir
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22 podman system reset reads the current configuration and attempts to
23 remove all of the relevant configurations. If the administrator modi‐
24 fied the configuration files first, podman system reset might not be
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38 Switching rootless user from VFS driver to overlay with fuse-overlayfs
39 If the user ran rootless containers without having the fuse-overlayfs
40 program installed, podman defaults to the vfs storage in their home
41 directory. If they want to switch to use fuse-overlay, they must
42 install the fuse-overlayfs package. The user needs to reset the storage
43 to use overlayfs by default. Execute podman system reset as the user
44 first to remove the VFS storage. Now the user can edit the /etc/con‐
45 tainers/storage.conf to make any changes if necessary. If the system's
46 default was already overlay, then no changes are necessary to switch to
47 fuse-overlayfs. Podman looks for the existence of fuse-overlayfs to use
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59 November 2019, Originally compiled by Dan Walsh (dwalsh at redhat dot
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