diff --git a/cmd/dockerd/config.go b/cmd/dockerd/config.go
index 20cd999e9e..ce53f694b8 100644
--- a/cmd/dockerd/config.go
+++ b/cmd/dockerd/config.go
@@ -1,8 +1,6 @@
 package main
 
 import (
-	"runtime"
-
 	"github.com/docker/docker/daemon/config"
 	"github.com/docker/docker/opts"
 	"github.com/docker/docker/registry"
@@ -48,11 +46,6 @@ func installCommonConfigFlags(conf *config.Config, flags *pflag.FlagSet) error {
 	flags.BoolVarP(&conf.AutoRestart, "restart", "r", true, "--restart on the daemon has been deprecated in favor of --restart policies on docker run")
 	_ = flags.MarkDeprecated("restart", "Please use a restart policy on docker run")
 
-	// Windows doesn't support setting the storage driver - there is no choice as to which ones to use.
-	if runtime.GOOS != "windows" {
-		flags.StringVarP(&conf.GraphDriver, "storage-driver", "s", "", "Storage driver to use")
-	}
-
 	flags.IntVar(&conf.Mtu, "mtu", 0, "Set the containers network MTU")
 	flags.BoolVar(&conf.RawLogs, "raw-logs", false, "Full timestamps without ANSI coloring")
 	flags.Var(opts.NewListOptsRef(&conf.DNS, opts.ValidateIPAddress), "dns", "DNS server to use")
diff --git a/cmd/dockerd/config_unix.go b/cmd/dockerd/config_unix.go
index 6bd6f4acc2..21a88f5091 100644
--- a/cmd/dockerd/config_unix.go
+++ b/cmd/dockerd/config_unix.go
@@ -35,6 +35,7 @@ func installConfigFlags(conf *config.Config, flags *pflag.FlagSet) error {
 	conf.ShmSize = opts.MemBytes(config.DefaultShmSize)
 
 	// Then platform-specific install flags
+	flags.StringVarP(&conf.GraphDriver, "storage-driver", "s", "", "Storage driver to use")
 	flags.BoolVar(&conf.EnableSelinuxSupport, "selinux-enabled", false, "Enable selinux support")
 	flags.Var(opts.NewNamedUlimitOpt("default-ulimits", &conf.Ulimits), "default-ulimit", "Default ulimits for containers")
 	flags.BoolVar(&conf.BridgeConfig.EnableIPTables, "iptables", true, "Enable addition of iptables rules")