From gentoo-user  Fri Dec 02 15:10:03 2022
From: Nikos Chantziaras <realnc () gmail ! com>
Date: Fri, 02 Dec 2022 15:10:03 +0000
To: gentoo-user
Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: Docker mounting strangeness.
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On 01/12/2022 21:48, Laurence Perkins wrote:
> I’m setting up an image to use Docker, which will be deployed on 
> multiple machines.  Since the containers will be large, I didn’t want 
> them on the root partition.
> 
> Ok, easy enough, I just put it in fstab to mount a different partition 
> on /var/lib/docker.  Presto, now I don’t have to worry about a container 
> using up all the OS’s disk space.

I don't know what's wrong in your case, but in order to have docker 
store its files elsewhere, I created this file:

   /etc/docker/daemon.json

with this in it:

   {
       "data-root": "/mnt/Data/cache/docker"
   }

I stopped the docker daemon and did:

   mkdir /mnt/Data/cache/
   mv /var/lib/docker /mnt/Data/cache/

as root. Then started the docker daemon again and it worked.

/etc/docker/daemon.json is useful for other settings as well, like 
enabling BuildKit by default without having to specify it on the command 
line every time. I use:

   {
       "data-root": "/mnt/Data/cache/docker",
       "features": { "buildkit": true }
   }