podman-container-cleanup - Clean up the container's network and mountpoints
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Description
podmancontainercleanup cleans up exited containers by removing all mountpoints and network
configurations from the host. The containername or ID can be used. The cleanup command does not remove
the containers. Running containers are not cleaned up.
Sometimes container mount points and network stacks can remain if the podman command was killed or the
container ran in daemon mode. This command is automatically executed when containers are run in daemon
mode by the conmonprocess when the container exits.
Examples
Clean up the container "mywebserver".
$ podman container cleanup mywebserver
Clean up the containers with the names "mywebserver", "myflaskserver", "860a4b23".
$ podman container cleanup mywebserver myflaskserver 860a4b23
History
Jun 2018, Originally compiled by Dan Walsh dwalsh@redhat.com ⟨mailto:dwalsh@redhat.com⟩
podman-container-cleanup(1)
Name
podman-container-cleanup - Clean up the container's network and mountpoints
Options
--all,-a
Clean up all containers.
The default is false.
IMPORTANT:ThisOPTIONdoesnotneedacontainernameorIDasinputargument.--exec=session
Clean up an exec session for a single container. It can only be specified if a single container is being
cleaned up (conflicts with --all as such). If --rm is not specified, temporary files for the exec session
are cleaned up; if it is, the exec session is removed from the container.
*IMPORTANT: Conflicts with --rmi as the container is not being cleaned up so the image cannot be
removed.*
--latest,-l
Instead of providing the containerID or name, use the last created container. The default is false.
IMPORTANT:ThisOPTIONisnotavailablewiththeremotePodmanclient,includingMacandWindows(excludingWSL2)machines.ThisOPTIONdoesnotneedacontainernameorIDasinputargument.--rm
After cleanup, remove the container entirely.
The default is false.
--rmi
After cleanup, remove the image entirely.
The default is false.
See Also
podman(1), podman-container(1), conmon(8)
Synopsis
podmancontainercleanup [options] container [container ...]
