umoci-gc(1)

umoci-gc1

Garbage collects all unreferenced oci image blobs

Usage

umoci gc --layout=image

Aleksa Sarai DECEMBER 2016

Overview

Conduct a mark-and-sweep garbage collection of the provided OCI image, only retaining blobs which can be reached by a descriptor path from the root set of tags. All other blobs will be removed.

Options

The global options are defined in umoci(1).

--layout=image
The OCI image layout to be garbage collected. image must be a path to a
valid OCI image.

Examples

The following deletes a tag from an OCI image and clean conducts a garbage collection in order to clean up the remaining unused blobs.

% umoci rm --image image:sometag
% umoci gc --layout image

Releases

5 releases since Debian 10 (Buster); the text changed 4 times.

  1. 10
  2. 11
  3. 12
  4. 13
  5. Arch

From umoci 0.6.0-1 in Arch Linux 2026-11-01. Parsed by carta from the page's man source.