Docker hangs during build
Yesterday I had a strange problem with Docker during a build process. I use Linux Mint. I didn’t have enough space at the main system directory /. By default, Docker saves all data (images, volumes, etc.) in /var/lib/docker. Firstly I wanted to move this directory to the /home, but unfortunately, there was probably a problem with encryption, and Docker’s daemon couldn’t start properly. The second option was to move the directory to a hdd drive. But it also wasn’t a piece of cake (just Linux user normal day 😀 ).
The problem
When Docker’s data were in the default location, the project has been built successfully. Then I changed the location of Docker’s data to another drive. It caused a problem and Docker froze during the build.
How to change the default location of Docker’s data?
Stop the Docker’s daemon
sudo service docker stop
Add an option with the path to the directory to the Docker’s daemon configuration file (/var/docker/daemon.json) (Just add this file if not exists)
{
"data-root": "/mnt/drive"
}
Copy the current data to the new directory
sudo rsync -aP /var/lib/docker/ /media/sarven/drive
Remove the old data
sudo rm -rf /var/lib/docker
Restart the Docker’s daemon
sudo service docker start
How to fix a hanging?
The problem was with the NTFS filesystem on the drive that I wanted to use as default Docker’s data directory. I discovered that Docker had set aufs storage driver, but I expected overlay or overlay2. I stopped Docker, formated the drive and then started Docker. Then Docker had set storage driver as overlay2 and the build was successful. I decided to write about this problem, maybe someone will find this as helpful.
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