I am getting a no space left on device error

Question

I tried installing a tablet as a virtual device and after installing it , It does not even show and my gradle stopped syncing citing no space on device...

Also I could not get the gradle vm settings to increase the memory using the option -Xmx512m

I could not delete the virtual device as it does not show any as intsalled , i cannot add as it shows no image available and the standalone sdk manager also does not open saying lack of memory...

I have a lot of disk and RAM free , and am at a loss...

I tried invalidating cache and restarting , that didnt help either... Any help will be appreciated...

OS : Solus Android Studio Version : 2.2

Solution 1

Clearing the temporary folder worked for me...

sudo rm -rf /tmp/*

Solution 2

You can increase available space in tmp by doing remount instead of "rm -rf" :

mount -o remount,size=8G,noatime /tmp

Comments

[nurettin]

That potentially erases lock files, PID files, socket files and so on.

[insign]

Not sure how erase temp can make damages but it workd for me.

[insign]

Looks a nice idea to avoid it happen again.

[Akito]

No idea why, but this helped! Don't know why it needed /tmp....