To prevent stopped containers from persisting when using the docker run command, use --rm i.e. docker run -it --rm --mount ... This is nice to prevent clutter of unused docker containers. To remove any stopped containers, the command docker container prune can be used. This removes all stopped containers !!!!! Although in this unit this is unnecessary since each docker container is extremely small (<1KB), its good to be aware of this! As some other docker containers maybe wont be so small ;) docker images can have a similar problem, especially when building docker images locally. I've personally cleared about 50GBs of orphaned images in one sitting.