1podman-container-cleanup(1) General Commands Manualpodman-container-cleanup(1)
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6 podman-container-cleanup - Clean up the container's network and mount‐
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11 podman container cleanup [options] container [container ...]
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15 podman container cleanup cleans up exited containers by removing all
16 mountpoints and network configurations from the host. The container
17 name or ID can be used. The cleanup command does not remove the con‐
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19 Sometimes container mount points and network stacks can remain if the
20 podman command was killed or the container ran in daemon mode. This
21 command is automatically executed when containers are run in daemon
22 mode by the conmon process when the container exits.
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27 Clean up all containers.
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82 Jun 2018, Originally compiled by Dan Walsh dwalsh@redhat.com
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