NAME

       podman-system-reset - Reset storage back to initial state

SYNOPSIS

       podman system reset [options]

DESCRIPTION

       podman  system  reset  removes  all  pods,  containers,  images, networks and volumes, and
       machines.

       This  command  must  be  run  before  changing  any  of  the  following  fields   in   the
       containers.conf or storage.conf files: driver, static_dir, tmp_dir or volume_path.

       podman  system  reset  reads  the  current configuration and attempts to remove all of the
       relevant configurations. If the administrator  modified  the  configuration  files  first,
       podman system reset might not be able to clean up the previous storage.

OPTIONS

   --force, -f
       Do not prompt for confirmation

   --help, -h
       Print usage statement

EXAMPLES

              $ podman system reset
              WARNING! This will remove:
                      - all containers
                      - all pods
                      - all images
                      - all networks
                      - all build cache
                      - all machines
                      - all volumes
              Are you sure you want to continue? [y/N] y

   Switching rootless user from VFS driver to overlay with fuse-overlayfs
       If  the  user ran rootless containers without having the fuse-overlayfs program installed,
       podman defaults to the vfs storage in their home directory. If they want to switch to  use
       fuse-overlay,  they  must  install the fuse-overlayfs package. The user needs to reset the
       storage to use overlayfs by default.  Execute podman system reset as  the  user  first  to
       remove the VFS storage. Now the user can edit the /etc/containers/storage.conf to make any
       changes if necessary. If the system's default was already overlay,  then  no  changes  are
       necessary to switch to fuse-overlayfs. Podman looks for the existence of fuse-overlayfs to
       use it when set in the overlay driver, only falling back to vfs if the  program  does  not
       exist.  Users can run podman info to ensure Podman is using fuse-overlayfs and the overlay
       driver.

SEE ALSO

       podman(1), podman-system(1),  fuse-overlayfs(1), containers-storage.conf(5)

HISTORY

       November 2019, Originally compiled by Dan Walsh (dwalsh at redhat dot com)

                                                                           podman-system-reset(1)