Android Studio 2.1 Preview1 Gives No space left on device Error

Question

I updated my android studio to 2.1 preview version, after that it's giving No space left on device Error. How to resolve this issue?

Answer 1

For me, this was due to my /tmp partition being too small . I got these errors both when trying to install a large device image (Android 7.1) and when trying to start an AVD. It seems that Android Studio will try to unzip big files in /tmp.

To increase the size of /tmp on Linux, set the size= parameter in /etc/fstab, eg on my Ubuntu I now have:

tmpfs /tmp tmpfs defaults,size=3g 0 0

A reboot is needed to apply that change.

Note that tmpfs is entirely held in RAM so you should probably undo this change after the installation of these components.

Answer 2

TL;DR (This happens if there is no free space in /tmp )

To increase the size of /tmp just type the below command in terminal

$ sudo mount -o remount,size=8G /tmp/

PS:- 8G is an arbitary value, you can set it to any size as far as its enough to done the job.

Answer 3

You can get rid of this error by restarting Android studio/your system .

To solve this issue, do not update your SDK directly from popup you get when there is any update available, instead
Goto -> SDK Platforms window,

or Goto File->Settings->Appearance and Behavior->System Settings->Android SDK

In that opened window you will see Launch Standalone SDK Manager

Click on that it will open another window,update your SDK from there.

Answer 4

You can also solve this by using TMPDIR=pathtodirectorytobeusedastmp before launching studio.sh from terminal.

eg: TMPDIR=/HOME/user/downloads studio.sh

PS This only applies if you are using any of the linux distributions.

Answer 5

What device are we talking about here? Is this for your emulator?

If so, try the following methods:

1. Try clearing the cache on the device. Cache storage can take up some unneeded space, especially on an emulator device.

2. In a console window, type the following commands.

   android list avd

   emulator -avd My_Avd_Name -wipe-data

What this will do is wipe the data for the emulator you choose to clear.

3. Create a new virtual device, and allocate more space to it. I'm not sure if you can edit your existing one add just add more space to it or not.

Resources:

• StackOverflow: No space left on device

• Android Emulator: No space left on device