Docker is in volume in use, but there aren't any Docker containers

Perhaps the volume was created via docker-compose? If so, it should get removed by:

docker-compose down --volumes

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Credit to Niels Bech Nielsen!

You can use these functions to brutally remove everything Docker related:

removecontainers() {
    docker stop $(docker ps -aq)
    docker rm $(docker ps -aq)
}

armageddon() {
    removecontainers
    docker network prune -f
    docker rmi -f $(docker images --filter dangling=true -qa)
    docker volume rm $(docker volume ls --filter dangling=true -q)
    docker rmi -f $(docker images -qa)
}

You can add those to your ~/Xrc file, where X is your shell interpreter (~/.bashrc if you're using bash) file and reload them via executing source ~/Xrc. Also, you can just copy paste them to the console and afterwards (regardless the option you took before to get the functions ready) just run:

armageddon

It's also useful for just general Docker clean up. Have in mind that this will also remove your images, not only your containers (either running or not) and your volumes of any kind.

Volume can be in use by one of stopped containers. You can remove such containers by command:

docker container prune

then you can remove not used volumes

docker volume prune