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, e.g. 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.