1podman-system-reset(1) General Commands Manual 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, networks and
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18 This command must be run before changing any of the following fields in
19 the containers.conf or storage.conf files: driver, static_dir, tmp_dir
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23 podman system reset reads the current configuration and attempts to re‐
24 move all of the relevant configurations. If the administrator modified
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39 $ podman system reset
40 WARNING! This will remove:
41 - all containers
42 - all pods
43 - all images
44 - all networks
45 - all build cache
46 - all machines
47 - all volumes
48 Are you sure you want to continue? [y/N] y
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52 Switching rootless user from VFS driver to overlay with fuse-overlayfs
53 If the user ran rootless containers without having the fuse-overlayfs
54 program installed, podman defaults to the vfs storage in their home di‐
55 rectory. If they want to switch to use fuse-overlay, they must install
56 the fuse-overlayfs package. The user needs to reset the storage to use
57 overlayfs by default. Execute podman system reset as the user first to
58 remove the VFS storage. Now the user can edit the /etc/containers/stor‐
59 age.conf to make any changes if necessary. If the system's default was
60 already overlay, then no changes are necessary to switch to fuse-over‐
61 layfs. Podman looks for the existence of fuse-overlayfs to use it when
62 set in the overlay driver, only falling back to vfs if the program does
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73 November 2019, Originally compiled by Dan Walsh (dwalsh at redhat dot
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