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How to Clear Log Files of A Docker Container

Written by Rahul, Updated on April 9, 2020

This tutorial will help you clear log file on a Docker container. If your system is getting out of disk space and you found that the docker container’s log files are consuming high disk space. you can find the log file location and clear them with the help of this tutorial. While clearing log files of a docker container, you don’t need to stop it.

Clear Docker Container Log File

Fist of all, find the log file location of a Docker container. Use inspect option to find log file name and location.

docker inspect --format='{{.LogPath}}' <container id/name>

Once you find the log file location, just truncate it with the following command.

truncate -s 0 /path/to/logfile

Here -s is used to set the size of a file. You provided 0 as input, means completely truncate the log file.

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I, Rahul Kumar am the founder and chief editor of TecAdmin.net. I am a Red Hat Certified Engineer (RHCE) and working as an IT professional since 2009..

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