# Cleaning old images from worker nodes

**URL:** <https://forums.suse.com/t/cleaning-old-images-from-worker-nodes/41760>\
**Category:** General\
**Created:** [October 13, 2023, 10:57am UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/cleaning-old-images-from-worker-nodes/41760 "2023-10-13T10:57:04Z")\
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**Author:** ![turner\_brian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c77e96/32.png) [@turner\_brian](https://forums.suse.com/u/turner_brian)\
**Post date:** [October 13, 2023, 10:57am UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/cleaning-old-images-from-worker-nodes/41760/1 "2023-10-13T10:57:04Z")

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I have a small 3 node cluster, and 2 worker nodes seem to be keeping old images on them, and it’s eating up a lot of space. I’ve been combing through all the Rancher docs and google to try and find a way to clear these images, or why Rancher isn’t doing it, but I have not been able to find anything regarding this specific issue. I’ve tried cordoning and draining, then a reboot, but no change.

Thought maybe i could just go on the VM and use docker to remove images, but docker is not installed, so i’d rather not put it on there if I don’t have to. Any suggestions?

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**Author:** ![turner\_brian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c77e96/32.png) [@turner\_brian](https://forums.suse.com/u/turner_brian)\
**Post date:** [October 13, 2023, 10:57am UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/cleaning-old-images-from-worker-nodes/41760/2 "2023-10-13T10:57:58Z")

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Rancher 2.6.6  
RKE2  
RHEL 8 VMs

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**Author:** ![bpedersen2](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/user_avatar/forums.suse.com/bpedersen2/32/9899_2.png) [@bpedersen2](https://forums.suse.com/u/bpedersen2)\
**Post date:** [October 17, 2023, 11:27am UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/cleaning-old-images-from-worker-nodes/41760/3 "2023-10-17T11:27:20Z")

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run `crictl rmi` on the nodes.