# Overlay2 consuming way more disk space than reported by docker system df

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**Created:** [February 13, 2020, 5:37pm UTC](https://forums.mobyproject.org/t/overlay2-consuming-way-more-disk-space-than-reported-by-docker-system-df/564 "2020-02-13T17:37:00Z")\
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Overlay does not take space itself.

What you are seeing in the mount table is overlay mounts which just display the full usage/space of everything on the mount where they are rooted.

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