Merge pull request #1697 from forestjohnsonpeoplenet/patch-1

Explain -s flag on docker ps
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Sebastiaan van Stijn 2019-08-06 16:56:30 +02:00 committed by GitHub
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@ -75,6 +75,22 @@ $ docker ps -a
container that exposes TCP ports `100, 101, 102` displays `100-102/tcp` in container that exposes TCP ports `100, 101, 102` displays `100-102/tcp` in
the `PORTS` column. the `PORTS` column.
### Show disk usage by container
The `docker ps -s` command displays two different on-disk-sizes for each container:
```bash
$ docker ps -s
CONTAINER ID IMAGE COMMAND CREATED STATUS PORTS NAMES SIZE SIZE
e90b8831a4b8 nginx "/bin/bash -c 'mkdir " 11 weeks ago Up 4 hours my_nginx 35.58 kB (virtual 109.2 MB)
00c6131c5e30 telegraf:1.5 "/entrypoint.sh" 11 weeks ago Up 11 weeks my_telegraf 0 B (virtual 209.5 MB)
```
* The "size" information shows the amount of data (on disk) that is used for the _writable_ layer of each container
* The "virtual size" is the total amount of disk-space used for the read-only _image_ data used by the container and the writable layer.
For more information, refer to the [container size on disk](https://docs.docker.com/storage/storagedriver/#container-size-on-disk) section.
### Filtering ### Filtering
The filtering flag (`-f` or `--filter`) format is a `key=value` pair. If there is more The filtering flag (`-f` or `--filter`) format is a `key=value` pair. If there is more