Docker build leads to "no space left on device" on Windows 10

Question

I´m facing a weird problem when I want to build my image on Windows. I haven´t used Docker for anything else, so the installation can be considered as fresh. There are no volumes at all and no images yet.

When I´m trying to build my application from my Dockerfile, it finishes with this error

docker build ./
Sending build context to Docker daemon   1.4 GB
Error response from daemon: Error processing tar file(exit status 1): write /.bowerrc: no space left on device

I´ve read that you can increase the basesize of docker, but I haven´t found a solution for that for Windows (Why is this even limited by default?)

docker info prints some stuff, but it doesn´t show anything about the basesize under "Storage Driver" at all

$ docker info
Containers: 0
 Running: 0
 Paused: 0
 Stopped: 0
Images: 0
Server Version: 1.13.1
Storage Driver: overlay2
 Backing Filesystem: tmpfs
 Supports d_type: true
 Native Overlay Diff: true
Logging Driver: json-file
Cgroup Driver: cgroupfs
Plugins:
 Volume: local
 Network: bridge host ipvlan macvlan null overlay
Swarm: inactive
Runtimes: runc
Default Runtime: runc
Init Binary: docker-init
containerd version: aa8187dbd3b7ad67d8e5e3a15115d3eef43a7ed1
runc version: 9df8b306d01f59d3a8029be411de015b7304dd8f
init version: 949e6fa
Security Options:
 seccomp
  Profile: default
Kernel Version: 4.9.8-moby
Operating System: Alpine Linux v3.5
OSType: linux
Architecture: x86_64
CPUs: 2
Total Memory: 1.934 GiB
Name: moby
ID: GUXQ:KPKS:PHBV:BMEF:QHHM:B2YG:MWPB:2W5H:Z3GX:27YS:QBT6:O4RV
Docker Root Dir: /var/lib/docker
Debug Mode (client): false
Debug Mode (server): true
 File Descriptors: 13
 Goroutines: 21
 System Time: 2017-02-19T20:15:57.8764828Z
 EventsListeners: 0
Registry: https://index.docker.io/v1/
Experimental: true
Insecure Registries:
 127.0.0.0/8
Live Restore Enabled: false

According to some posts in the internet, this was once or is the way to go on Linux, but it doesn´t work on Windows

docker daemon --storage-opt dm.basesize=20G

What is wrong with my docker installation and how can I increase the basesize?

Answer 1

I had the same problem on Windows. One of this two settings should solve this problem:

• Increase Memory that Docker is using. If is it 2GB, add more
• Increase "Disk image max size" - initially is 60, move it to 80 GB

This should be enough, but depends on complexity of what you are building. In some cases increase of Swap would be needed. The initial Swap of Docker is 1024 MB

Thanks