diff --git a/config.docker.js b/config.docker.js
index 6968621d4..01225c1d8 100644
--- a/config.docker.js
+++ b/config.docker.js
@@ -15,6 +15,24 @@ const CONFIG = {
   ssl: process.env.FLOOD_ENABLE_SSL === 'true' || process.env.FLOOD_ENABLE_SSL === true,
   sslKey: '/data/flood_ssl.key',
   sslCert: '/data/flood_ssl.cert',
+  diskUsageService: {
+    dontWatchMountPoints: [
+      "/dev",
+      "/sys/fs/cgroup",
+      "/etc/resolv.conf",
+      "/etc/hostname",
+      "/etc/hosts",
+      "/dev/shm",
+      "/proc/asound",
+      "/proc/acpi",
+      "/proc/kcore",
+      "/proc/keys",
+      "/proc/timer_list",
+      "/proc/sched_debug",
+      "/proc/scsi",
+      "/sys/firmware",
+    ],
+  },
 };
 
 module.exports = CONFIG;
diff --git a/server/services/diskUsageService.js b/server/services/diskUsageService.js
index 13f6a6ebe..7a11c5602 100644
--- a/server/services/diskUsageService.js
+++ b/server/services/diskUsageService.js
@@ -11,12 +11,16 @@ const diskUsageServiceEvents = require('../constants/diskUsageServiceEvents');
 const PLATFORMS_SUPPORTED = ['darwin', 'linux', 'freebsd'];
 const MAX_BUFFER_SIZE = 65536;
 
-const filterMountPoint =
-  config.diskUsageService && config.diskUsageService.watchMountPoints
-    ? // if user has configured watchPartitions filter each line output for given
-      // array
-      mountpoint => config.diskUsageService.watchMountPoints.includes(mountpoint)
-    : () => true; // include all mounted file systems by default
+const filterMountPoint = mountpoint => {
+  // include all mounted file systems by default
+  if (!config.diskUsageService) return true;
+  const {watchMountPoints, dontWatchMountPoints} = config.diskUsageService;
+  // whitelist
+  if (watchMountPoints) return watchMountPoints.includes(mountpoint);
+  // blacklist
+  if (dontWatchMountPoints) return !dontWatchMountPoints.includes(mountpoint);
+  return true;
+};
 
 const linuxDfParsing = () =>
   execFile('df | tail -n+2', {