Change .docker directory on Windows

Question

The standard path on Windows where Docker puts stuff is:

C:\Users\<USER>\.docker

We need to put it here:

D:\Docker

We couldn't find any info about where or how to change that setting. Any hint appreciated, thanks!

Just in case someone stumbles upon this question in the future, I added the MACHINE_STORAGE_PATH environment variable as suggested in: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/33933107/change-docker-machine-location-windows and it worked! — martintama, Jun 06 '16 at 15:20

score 5 · Answer 1 · edited May 23 '17 at 12:26

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One solution that works for us is creating a symbolic link:

mklink /J "C:\Users\<USER>\.docker" "D:\Docker"

But it's not what we call a clean solution.

(All credit for the question & this answer goes to IMM0rtalis.)

edited May 23 '17 at 12:26

Community

answered Oct 05 '15 at 12:48

Andrej Stieben

This will cause `Waiting for SSH to be available...` while run `docker-machine create` - docker for win10 hyper-h mode – Archon May 06 '19 at 09:54

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Oct 05 '15 at 12:20

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You simply can define the environment variable HOME before launching a new boot2docker or docker machine session.

set HOME=D:\docker

(Add it to your user environment variables if you want it to persists across CMD sessions)

Those tools will look for any config in $HOME/.xxx

answered Oct 05 '15 at 12:20

VonC

Adding `set HOME=D:\Docker` in `start.sh` does not seem to change anything. – Andrej Stieben Oct 05 '15 at 12:32
@AndrejStieben In your user environment variable then. – VonC Oct 05 '15 at 13:31

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