1podman-system-reset(1)()                              podman-system-reset(1)()
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NAME

6       podman-system-reset - Reset storage back to initial state
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SYNOPSIS

10       podman system reset [options]
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DESCRIPTION

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
19       or volume_path.
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22       podman system reset reads the current configuration and attempts to re‐
23       move all of the relevant configurations. If the administrator  modified
24       the configuration files first, podman system reset might not be able to
25       clean up the previous storage.
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OPTIONS

29   --force, -f
30       Do not prompt for confirmation
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33   --help, -h
34       Print usage statement
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EXAMPLES

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 di‐
41       rectory. If they want to switch to use fuse-overlay, they must  install
42       the  fuse-overlayfs package. The user needs to reset the storage to use
43       overlayfs by default.  Execute podman system reset as the user first to
44       remove the VFS storage. Now the user can edit the /etc/containers/stor‐
45       age.conf to make any changes if necessary. If the system's default  was
46       already  overlay, then no changes are necessary to switch to fuse-over‐
47       layfs. Podman looks for the existence of fuse-overlayfs to use it  when
48       set in the overlay driver, only falling back to vfs if the program does
49       not exist. Users can run podman info to ensure Podman  is  using  fuse-
50       overlayfs and the overlay driver.
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SEE ALSO

54       podman(1),    podman-system(1),   fuse-overlayfs(1),   containers-stor‐
55       age.conf(5)
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HISTORY

59       November 2019, Originally compiled by Dan Walsh (dwalsh at  redhat  dot
60       com)
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