if [ -z "$dir" ]; then { echo 'This script is for destroying old /var/lib/docker directories more safely than' echo ' "rm -rf", which can cause data loss or other serious issues.' echo echo "usage: $0 directory" echo " ie: $0 /var/lib/docker" } >&2 exit 1 fi
if [ "$(id -u)" != 0 ]; then echo >&2 "error: $0 must be run as root" exit 1 fi
if [ ! -d "$dir" ]; then echo >&2 "error: $dir is not a directory" exit 1 fi
dir="$(readlink -f "$dir")"
echo echo "Nuking $dir ..." echo ' (if this is wrong, press Ctrl+C NOW!)' echo
# let's start by unmounting any submounts in $dir # (like -v /home:... for example - DON'T DELETE MY HOME DIRECTORY BRU!) for mount in $(awk '{ print $5 }' /proc/self/mountinfo); do mount="$(readlink -f "$mount" || true)" if dir_in_dir "$mount" "$dir"; then ( set -x; umount -f "$mount" ) fi done
# now, let's go destroy individual btrfs subvolumes, if any exist if command -v btrfs > /dev/null 2>&1; then root="$(df "$dir" | awk 'NR>1 { print $NF }')" root="${root#/}" # if root is "/", we want it to become "" for subvol in $(btrfs subvolume list -o "$root/" 2>/dev/null | awk -F' path ' '{ print $2 }' | sort -r); do subvolDir="$root/$subvol" if dir_in_dir "$subvolDir" "$dir"; then ( set -x; btrfs subvolume delete "$subvolDir" ) fi done fi
# finally, DESTROY ALL THINGS ( set -x; rm -rf "$dir" )