how do I clean up my docker host machine

Question

As I create/debug a docker image/container docker seems to be leaving all sorts of artifacts on my system. (at one point there was a 48 image limit) But the last time I looked t

Answer 1

I'm using docker-machine with VirtualBox and after deleting all containers and all images, the docker VirtualBox image is still consuming many gigabytes of disk space.

To also clean up the disk space, it helps to delete and re-create the docker machine. E.g.:

docker-machine rm default
docker-machine create --driver virtualbox default