I’ve searched all over for this question and it seems a common problem is that a docker host runs out of disk space. My docker host has plenty of space but my container claims the ‘device is out of space’

Results of df -h:

Filesystem                         Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
tmpfs                              1.6G  3.8M  1.6G   1% /run
/dev/mapper/ubuntu--vg-ubuntu--lv  2.1T  1.7T  321G  84% /
tmpfs                              7.8G     0  7.8G   0% /dev/shm
tmpfs                              5.0M     0  5.0M   0% /run/lock
/dev/nvme0n1p2                     2.0G  254M  1.6G  14% /boot
/dev/nvme0n1p1                     1.1G   45M  1.1G   5% /boot/efi
tmpfs                              1.6G  4.0K  1.6G   1% /run/user/1000

I get the out of space error when I try to pip install a python package inside a container. It fails on the downloading stage. This is the error:

OSError: [Errno 28] No space left on device

Here is the df -h from inside the container:

Filesystem                         Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
overlay                            2.1T  1.7T  321G  84% /
tmpfs                               64M     0   64M   0% /dev
shm                                 64M  276K   64M   1% /dev/shm
/dev/mapper/ubuntu--vg-ubuntu--lv  2.1T  1.7T  321G  84% /certs
tmpfs                              7.8G     0  7.8G   0% /proc/asound
tmpfs                              7.8G     0  7.8G   0% /proc/acpi
tmpfs                              7.8G     0  7.8G   0% /proc/scsi
tmpfs                              7.8G     0  7.8G   0% /sys/firmware
tmpfs                              7.8G     0  7.8G   0% /sys/devices/virtual/powercap

Tried pip install xxx

I expected it to install without errors

Instead I got OSError: [Errno 28] No space left on device