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  The windowsfilter storage driver is the default storage driver for Docker
  Engine on Windows. The windowsfilter driver uses Windows-native file system
  layers to for storing Docker layers and volume data on disk. The windowsfilter
  storage driver only works on file systems formatted with NTFS.
  Configure the windowsfilter storage driver
  For most use case, no configuring the windowsfilter storage driver is not
  necessary.
  The default storage limit for Docker Engine on Windows is 127GB. To use a
  different storage size, set the
  size
  option for the windowsfilter storage
  driver. See
  windowsfilter options
  Data is stored on the Docker host in
  image
  windowsfilter
  subdirectories
  within
  C:\ProgramData\docker
  by default. You can change the storage location
  by configuring the
  data-root
  option in the
  Daemon configuration file
  "data-root"
  "d:\\docker"
  You must restart the daemon for the configuration change to take effect.
  Additional information
  For more information about how container storage works on Windows, refer to
  Microsoft's
  Containers on Windows documentation