How do I move a docker container's image to a persistent disk?

Question

We have noticed that our containers are taking up a lot of space, one of the reasons for this is the images. We would like to move the images. I know right now they are stored in `/var/lib/docker/graph/<id>/layer` Is there a way to move these to another location/persistent disk?

Accepted Answer

To move images to another drive or another server:

```
docker save image_name > image_name.tar

mv image_name.tar /somewhere/else/
```

Load it back into docker

```
docker load < image_name.tar 
```

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How do I move a docker container's image to a persistent disk?

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