Fully remove a Compose stack including named volumes with podman compose down --volumes
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Documented steps
Carefully confirm you want to destroy data, then cd into the Compose directory.
Run `podman compose down --volumes` (or `podman compose down -v`) to stop and remove containers, the project network, AND named volumes declared in the file.
Optionally reclaim image disk space too with `podman system prune -a --volumes`.
Verify with `podman volume ls` that the project volumes are gone and with `podman compose ps -a` that containers are removed.
Docs: https://docs.podman.io/en/latest/markdown/podman-compose.1.html and https://github.com/containers/podman-compose
Known gotchas
--volumes is destructive: any data in the named volumes is permanently lost with no undo.
Anonymous/inline volumes not declared as top-level volumes in the file may still be removed by -v depending on provider; confirm before running.
Images are NOT removed by down --volumes; use podman system prune to reclaim image storage.
On rootless podman, volume storage lives in ~/.local/share/containers/storage/volumes; removal here is final.
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