Merge pull request #3165 from SvenDowideit/cmd-rmi-example

add example for docker rmi, and explain the need to remove all references (tags) to and image before its garbage collected :)
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Andy Rothfusz 2013-12-11 13:57:13 -08:00
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@ -925,6 +925,38 @@ containers will not be deleted.
Usage: docker rmi IMAGE [IMAGE...]
Remove one or more images
Removing tagged images
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Images can be removed either by their short or long ID's, or their image names.
If an image has more than one name, each of them needs to be removed before the
image is removed.
.. code-block:: bash
$ sudo docker images
REPOSITORY TAG IMAGE ID CREATED SIZE
test1 latest fd484f19954f 23 seconds ago 7 B (virtual 4.964 MB)
test latest fd484f19954f 23 seconds ago 7 B (virtual 4.964 MB)
test2 latest fd484f19954f 23 seconds ago 7 B (virtual 4.964 MB)
$ sudo docker rmi fd484f19954f
Error: Conflict, fd484f19954f wasn't deleted
2013/12/11 05:47:16 Error: failed to remove one or more images
$ sudo docker rmi test1
Untagged: fd484f19954f4920da7ff372b5067f5b7ddb2fd3830cecd17b96ea9e286ba5b8
$ sudo docker rmi test2
Untagged: fd484f19954f4920da7ff372b5067f5b7ddb2fd3830cecd17b96ea9e286ba5b8
$ sudo docker images
REPOSITORY TAG IMAGE ID CREATED SIZE
test1 latest fd484f19954f 23 seconds ago 7 B (virtual 4.964 MB)
$ sudo docker rmi test
Untagged: fd484f19954f4920da7ff372b5067f5b7ddb2fd3830cecd17b96ea9e286ba5b8
Deleted: fd484f19954f4920da7ff372b5067f5b7ddb2fd3830cecd17b96ea9e286ba5b8
.. _cli_run: