{"id":469,"date":"2022-10-03T14:30:01","date_gmt":"2022-10-03T14:30:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scmgalaxy.com\/tutorials\/2016\/02\/23\/location-of-dockers-images-in-all-operating-systems\/"},"modified":"2025-07-12T05:40:14","modified_gmt":"2025-07-12T05:40:14","slug":"location-of-dockers-images-in-all-operating-systems","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.devopsschool.com\/blog\/location-of-dockers-images-in-all-operating-systems\/","title":{"rendered":"Docker Tutorials: Location of Docker images in all Operating Systems"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-3153 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.scmgalaxy.com\/tutorials\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/location-of-dockers-images.png\" alt=\"location-of-dockers-images\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.devopsschool.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/location-of-dockers-images.png 600w, https:\/\/www.devopsschool.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/location-of-dockers-images-300x200.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/div>\n<div><strong>Location of Dockers images in all Operating Systems<\/strong><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The location of the images vary depending on the driver Docker is using for storage. Actually, Docker images are stored in two files as shown by following command.<\/div>\n<div># docker info<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><strong>aufs &#8211; Most linux version<\/strong><\/div>\n<div>\/var\/lib\/docker\/aufs\/diff\/&lt;id&gt; has the file contents of the images.<\/div>\n<div>\/var\/lib\/docker\/repositories-aufs is a JSON file containing local image information. This can be viewed with the command docker images.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><strong>btrfs<\/strong><\/div>\n<div>TBD<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><strong>devicemapper (Redhat)<\/strong><\/div>\n<div>\/var\/lib\/docker\/devicemapper\/devicemapper\/data &#8211; stores the images<\/div>\n<div>\/var\/lib\/docker\/devicemapper\/devicemapper\/metadata &#8211; the metadata<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><strong>vfs<\/strong><\/div>\n<div>TBD<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><strong>Mac OS X<\/strong><\/div>\n<div>~\/VirtualBox VMs\/boot2docker-vm<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><strong>Mac OS X using&nbsp;boot2docker&nbsp;<\/strong><\/div>\n<div>\/Users\/rajesh.kumar\/.docker\/machine\/machines\/default<\/div>\n<div>File Name &#8211; disk.vmdk<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><strong>Windows:<\/strong><\/div>\n<div>%USERPROFILE%\/VirtualBox VMs\/boot2docker-vm<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>You can manually set the storage driver with the -s or &#8211;storage-driver= option to the Docker daemon.<\/div>\n<div>\/var\/lib\/docker\/{driver-name} will contain the driver specific storage for contents of the images.<\/div>\n<div>\/var\/lib\/docker\/graph\/&lt;id&gt; now only contains metadata about the image, in the json and layersize files.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><strong>Reference<\/strong><\/div>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/stackoverflow.com\/questions\/19234831\/where-are-docker-images-stored-on-the-host-machine\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/stackoverflow.com\/questions\/19234831\/where-are-docker-images-stored-on-the-host-machine<\/a><\/div>\n\n<div class=\"epyt-gallery\" data-currpage=\"1\" id=\"epyt_gallery_30965\"><figure class=\"wp-block-embed wp-block-embed-youtube is-type-video is-provider-youtube epyt-figure\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\"  id=\"_ytid_40857\"  width=\"760\" height=\"427\"  data-origwidth=\"760\" data-origheight=\"427\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/?enablejsapi=1&#038;autoplay=0&#038;cc_load_policy=0&#038;cc_lang_pref=&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;loop=0&#038;rel=1&#038;fs=1&#038;playsinline=0&#038;autohide=2&#038;theme=dark&#038;color=red&#038;controls=1&#038;disablekb=0&#038;\" class=\"__youtube_prefs__  no-lazyload\" title=\"YouTube player\"  data-epytgalleryid=\"epyt_gallery_30965\"  allow=\"fullscreen; accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen data-no-lazy=\"1\" data-skipgform_ajax_framebjll=\"\"><\/iframe><\/div><\/figure><div class=\"epyt-gallery-list\"><div>Sorry, there was a YouTube error.<\/div><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Location of Dockers images in all Operating Systems The location of the images vary depending on the driver Docker is using for storage. 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