March 2017
Beginner to intermediate
925 pages
18h 11m
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The Atomic host is a minimal distribution and, as such, is distributed on a 6 GB image to keep the footprint small. This is very less amount of storage to build and store lots of Docker images, so it is recommended to attach external storage for those operations.
By default, Docker uses /var/lib/docker as the default directory where all Docker-related files, including images, are stored. In Project Atomic, we use direct LVM volumes via the devicemapper backend to store Docker images and metadata in /dev/atomicos/docker-data and /dev/atomicos/docker-meta respectively.
So, to add more storage, Project Atomic provides a helper script called docker-storage-helper to add an external disk into the existing ...
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