/tmp directory in Linux Android SDK

Question

Just to tinker with it, last night I installed the Android Studio/SDK, and both during install and use, it repeatedly blew my 2Gb /tmp partition. Is there any way to tell this monster to use something other than /tmp, especially for downloading/unzipping?

Fedora release 20 (Heisenbug)

Thanks

Answer 1

Setting -Djava.io.tmpdir=whatever didn't work for me. I simply created $HOME/tmp/PackageOperation04 and then created a symlink from /tmp.

cd ~ mkdir -p tmp/PackageOperation04 cd /tmp ln -s $HOME/tmp/PackageOperation04 

This way the Android SDK uses my /home partition instead of /tmp for this.

Answer 2

You can change the location of the temporary directory used by the Java Virtual Machine running Android Studio. In Android Studio 2.0 or later, select Help -> Edit Custom VM Options. This will create a copy of the installation's vmoptions file in your own configuration directory and open it in the editor. Add the following line and restart:

-Djava.io.tmpdir=<directory> 

where <directory> is an absolute path to a directory in a partition with enough space. If <directory> doesn't exist, it will be created the next time Android Studio is started.

You can also edit the file directly (and need to in versions prior to 2.0), but it's location varies depending on the platform version and possibly an environment variable setting. See Configuring Android Studio: IDE & VM Options, JDK, etc. for the details.

An alternative solution would be to increase the size of /tmp which in your case is most likely a tmpfs partition and thus easily resizable.