Where is /var/lib/docker on Mac/OS X

macos docker docker-for-mac
christian picture christian · Jul 22, 2016 · Viewed 57.4k times · Source

I´m looking for the folder /var/lib/docker on my Mac after installing docker for Mac.

With docker info I get

    Containers: 5
     ...
    Server Version: 1.12.0-rc4
    Storage Driver: aufs
     Root Dir: /var/lib/docker/aufs
     Backing Filesystem: extfs
     Dirs: 339
     Dirperm1 Supported: true
    ...
    Name: moby
    ID: LUOU:5UHI:JFNI:OQFT:BLKR:YJIC:HHE5:W4LP:YHVP:TT3V:4CB2:6TUS
    Docker Root Dir: /var/lib/docker
    Debug Mode (client): false
    ....

But I don´t have a directory /var/lib/docker on my host.

I have checked /Users/myuser/Library/Containers/com.docker.docker/ but couldn´t find anything there. Any idea where it is located?

Answer

Mik jagger picture Mik jagger · Dec 19, 2016

As mentioned in the above answers, you will find it in:
screen ~/Library/Containers/com.docker.docker/Data/vms/0/tty

Once you get the tty running you can navigate to /var/lib/docker

Related questions

Docker: Mounts denied. The paths ... are not shared from OS X and are not known to Docker

The command docker run -v /var/folders/zz/... produces the following error. docker: Error response from daemon: Mounts denied: The paths /var/folders/zz/... and /var/folders/zz/... are not shared from OS X and are not known to Docker. …

Read More
docker on OSX slow volumes

I'm trying to use docker beta on OSX, mainly for Symfony development but the mounted volumes are incredible slow. Even for a vanilla Symfony project I get 6s page load time. That's unbearable! Has anyone found a solution to this …

Read More
Cannot connect to the Docker daemon on macOS

I normally prefer to manage my apps on my OSX with brew I am able to install docker, docker-compose and docker-machine docker --version Docker version 17.05.0-ce, build 89658be docker-compose --version docker-compose version 1.13.0, build unknown docker-machine --version docker-machine version 0.11.0, build 5b27455 …

Read More