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 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
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34 Print usage statement
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38 Switching rootless user from VFS driver to overlay with fuse-overlayfs
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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
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50 overlayfs and the overlay driver.
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59 November 2019, Originally compiled by Dan Walsh (dwalsh at redhat dot
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