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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, networks and
15       volumes, and machines.  It also removes the  configured  graphRoot  and
16       runRoot  directories. Make sure these are not set to some important di‐
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20       This command must be run before changing any of the following fields in
21       the  containers.conf or storage.conf files: driver, static_dir, tmp_dir
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25       podman system reset reads the current configuration and attempts to re‐
26       move  all of the relevant configurations. If the administrator modified
27       the configuration files first, podman system reset might not be able to
28       clean up the previous storage.
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OPTIONS

32   --force, -f
33       Do not prompt for confirmation
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37       Print usage statement
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EXAMPLES

41              $ podman system reset
42              WARNING! This will remove:
43                      - all containers
44                      - all pods
45                      - all images
46                      - all networks
47                      - all build cache
48                      - all machines
49                      - all volumes
50                      - the graphRoot directory: /var/lib/containers/storage
51                      - the runRoot directory: /run/containers/storage
52              Are you sure you want to continue? [y/N] y
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56   Switching rootless user from VFS driver to overlay with fuse-overlayfs
57       If  the  user ran rootless containers without having the fuse-overlayfs
58       program installed, podman defaults to the vfs storage in their home di‐
59       rectory.  If they want to switch to use fuse-overlay, they must install
60       the fuse-overlayfs package. The user needs to reset the storage to  use
61       overlayfs by default.  Execute podman system reset as the user first to
62       remove the VFS storage. Now the user can edit the /etc/containers/stor‐
63       age.conf  to make any changes if necessary. If the system's default was
64       already overlay, then no changes are necessary to switch to  fuse-over‐
65       layfs.  Podman looks for the existence of fuse-overlayfs to use it when
66       set in the overlay driver, only falling back to vfs if the program does
67       not  exist.  Users  can run podman info to ensure Podman is using fuse-
68       overlayfs and the overlay driver.
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SEE ALSO

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

77       November  2019,  Originally compiled by Dan Walsh (dwalsh at redhat dot
78       com)
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