How to analyze disk usage of a Docker container

I can see that Docker takes 12GB of my filesystem:

2.7G    /var/lib/docker/vfs/dir
2.7G    /var/lib/docker/vfs
2.8G    /var/lib/docker/devicemapper/mnt
6.3G    /var/lib/docker/devicemapper/devicemapper
9.1G    /var/lib/docker/devicemapper
12G     /var/lib/docker

But, how do I know how this is distributed over the containers?

I tried to attach to the containers by running (the new v1.3 command)

docker exec -it <container_name> bash

and then running 'df -h' to analyze the disk usage. It seems to be working, but not with containers that use 'volumes-from'.

For example, I use a data-only container for MongoDB, called 'mongo-data'.

When I run docker run -it --volumes-from mongo-data busybox, and then df -h inside the container, It says that the filesystem mounted on /data/db (my 'mongo-data' data-only container) uses 11.3G, but when I do du -h /data/db, it says that it uses only 2.1G.

So, how do I analyze a container/volume disk usage? Or, in my case, how do I find out the 'mongo-data' container size?

To see the file size of your containers, you can use the --size argument of docker ps:

docker ps --size

After 1.13.0, Docker includes a new command docker system df to show docker disk usage.

$ docker system df
TYPE            TOTAL        ACTIVE     SIZE        RECLAIMABLE
Images          5            1          2.777 GB    2.647 GB (95%)
Containers      1            1          0 B         0B
Local Volumes   4            1          3.207 GB    2.261 (70%)

To show more detailed information on space usage:

$ docker system df --verbose

Posting this as an answer because my comments above got hidden:

List the size of a container:

du -d 2 -h /var/lib/docker/devicemapper | grep `docker inspect -f "{{.Id}}" <container_name>`

List the sizes of a container's volumes:

docker inspect -f "{{.Volumes}}" <container_name> | sed 's/map\[//' | sed 's/]//' | tr ' ' '\n' | sed 's/.*://' | xargs sudo du -d 1 -h

Edit: List all running containers' sizes and volumes:

for d in `docker ps -q`; do
    d_name=`docker inspect -f {{.Name}} $d`
    echo "========================================================="
    echo "$d_name ($d) container size:"
    sudo du -d 2 -h /var/lib/docker/devicemapper | grep `docker inspect -f "{{.Id}}" $d`
    echo "$d_name ($d) volumes:"
    docker inspect -f "{{.Volumes}}" $d | sed 's/map\[//' | sed 's/]//' | tr ' ' '\n' | sed 's/.*://' | xargs sudo du -d 1 -h
done

NOTE: Change 'devicemapper' according to your Docker filesystem (e.g 'aufs')

The volume part did not work anymore so if anyone is insterested I just change the above script a little bit:

for d in `docker ps | awk '{print $1}' | tail -n +2`; do
    d_name=`docker inspect -f {{.Name}} $d`
    echo "========================================================="
    echo "$d_name ($d) container size:"
    sudo du -d 2 -h /var/lib/docker/aufs | grep `docker inspect -f "{{.Id}}" $d`
    echo "$d_name ($d) volumes:"
    for mount in `docker inspect -f "{{range .Mounts}} {{.Source}}:{{.Destination}}                                                                                                                                                      
    {{end}}" $d`; do
        size=`echo $mount | cut -d':' -f1 | sudo xargs du -d 0 -h`
        mnt=`echo $mount | cut -d':' -f2`
        echo "$size mounted on $mnt"
    done
done