Error running docker container: No space left on device: "/data/db/journal"

Question

Running containers form docker-compose on a Mac, this is the file

api:   build: .   volumes:     - .:/src     - /src/node_modules   links:     - mongo     - redis   ports:     - "3015:3015"     - "5858:5858" mongo:   image: mongo:3.3   ports:    - "27017:27017" redis:   image: redis   ports:    - "6379:6379" 

Running docker-compose up the mongo container fails and exit. this is the log file:

MongoDB starting : pid=1 port=27017 dbpath=/data/db 64-bit host=7115a6cce706 db version v3.3.14 git version: 507a5b4d334c1b4bea8fa232fa6b882849608e97 OpenSSL version: OpenSSL 1.0.1t  3 May 2016 allocator: tcmalloc modules: none build environment:     distmod: debian81     distarch: x86_64     target_arch: x86_64 options: {}  ** WARNING: Using the XFS filesystem is strongly recommended with the WiredTiger storage engine See http://dochub.mongodb.org/core/prodnotes-filesystem error creating journal dir /data/db/journal boost::filesystem::create_directory: No space left on device: "/data/db/journal" exception in initAndListen std::exception: boost::filesystem::create_directory: No space left on device: "/data/db/journal", terminating shutdown: going to close listening sockets... removing socket file: /tmp/mongodb-27017.sock shutdown: going to flush diaglog... now exiting shutting down with code:100 

The main complain it's about no space left for creating a dir but I can't figured out how to fix it.

Answer 1

I fixed the problem cleaning the old volumes with the next command:

$ docker volume rm $(docker volume ls -qf dangling=true) 

Reference: docker-cleanup-volumes

Update: 07/13/2018

Docker now has a built in command for removing dangling volumes: docker volume prune.

Answer 2

I fixed the error by resizing the disk of docker: