Docker Machine: No space left on device

I had the same error ([ERROR] InnoDB: Error number 28 means 'No space left on device') and solve it this way:

1 . Delete the orphaned volumes in Docker, you can use the built-in docker volume command. The built-in command also deletes any directory in /var/lib/docker/volumes that is not a volume so make sure you didn't put anything in there you want to save.

Warning be very careful with this if you have some data you want to keep

Cleanup:

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

Additional commands:

List dangling volumes:

$ docker volume ls -qf dangling=true

List all volumes:

$ docker volume ls

2 . Also consider removing all the unused Images.

First get rid of the <none> images (those are sometimes generated while building an image and if for any reason the image building was interrupted, they stay there).

here's a nice script I use to remove them

docker rmi $(docker images | grep "^<none>" | awk '{print $3}')

Then if you are using Docker Compose to build Images locally for every project. You will end up with a lot of images usually named like your folder (example if your project folder named Hello, you will find images name Hello_blablabla). so also consider removing all these images

you can edit the above script to remove them or remove them manually with

docker rmi {image-name}

Like said above, the tmpfs has nothing to do with --virtualbox-disk-size. It seems like boot2docker mounts tmpfs into memory, so you need to dedicate more memory to your virtualbox vm. You can do it by specifying the --virtualbox-memory parameter.

   --virtualbox-memory "1024"Size of memory for host in MB [$VIRTUALBOX_MEMORY_SIZE]

Defaults:

$ docker-machine create --driver virtualbox testACreating VirtualBox VM...Creating SSH key...Starting VirtualBox VM...Starting VM...$ docker-machine ssh testA                        ##         .                  ## ## ##        ==               ## ## ## ## ##    ===           /"""""""""""""""""\___/ ===      ~~~ {~~ ~~~~ ~~~ ~~~~ ~~~ ~ /  ===- ~~~           \______ o           __/             \    \         __/              \____\_______/ _                 _   ____     _            _| |__   ___   ___ | |_|___ \ __| | ___   ___| | _____ _ __| '_ \ / _ \ / _ \| __| __) / _` |/ _ \ / __| |/ / _ \ '__|| |_) | (_) | (_) | |_ / __/ (_| | (_) | (__|   <  __/ ||_.__/ \___/ \___/ \__|_____\__,_|\___/ \___|_|\_\___|_|Boot2Docker version 1.8.1, build master : 7f12e95 - Thu Aug 13 03:24:56 UTC 2015Docker version 1.8.1, build d12ea79docker@testA:~$ df -h /Filesystem                Size      Used Available Use% Mounted ontmpfs                   896.6M    112.7M    783.9M  13% /

With --virtualbox-memory set to 8096

$ docker-machine create --driver virtualbox --virtualbox-memory 8096 testBCreating VirtualBox VM...Creating SSH key...Starting VirtualBox VM...Starting VM...$ docker-machine ssh testB                        ##         .                  ## ## ##        ==               ## ## ## ## ##    ===           /"""""""""""""""""\___/ ===      ~~~ {~~ ~~~~ ~~~ ~~~~ ~~~ ~ /  ===- ~~~           \______ o           __/             \    \         __/              \____\_______/ _                 _   ____     _            _| |__   ___   ___ | |_|___ \ __| | ___   ___| | _____ _ __| '_ \ / _ \ / _ \| __| __) / _` |/ _ \ / __| |/ / _ \ '__|| |_) | (_) | (_) | |_ / __/ (_| | (_) | (__|   <  __/ ||_.__/ \___/ \___/ \__|_____\__,_|\___/ \___|_|\_\___|_|Boot2Docker version 1.8.1, build master : 7f12e95 - Thu Aug 13 03:24:56 UTC 2015Docker version 1.8.1, build d12ea79docker@testB:~$ df -h /Filesystem                Size      Used Available Use% Mounted ontmpfs                     6.9G    112.4M      6.8G   2% /

If you are using Docker Community Edition:

 docker system prune --volumes  

If you are using boot2docker (docker-machine) clear the volumes that are orphaned:

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

Clear unused images:

 docker rmi $(docker images -q -f "dangling=true")