/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 t

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

After previous suggestions did not work for me, I want to add another (not very clean) solution:

Upon starting to install a new virtual device (still using /tmp) the file

~/Android/Sdk/system-images/android-< version >/google_apis/x86/.installer/.installData

is created, which contains the temp path. Cancel the download, edit the temp path to your desired folder and restart the installation of the device.

I later realized that the solution adding -Djava.io.tmpdir=< tempdir > as suggested by Paul Ratazzi via Help -> Edit Custom VM Options did not work for me, since it was added to android-studio/bin/studio64.vmoptions but adding it to android-studio/bin/studio.vmoptions instead did the job for me. That is probably the better way to do it...

Answer 3

Here is What I did and worked:

mkdir -p ~/PackageOperation01 /tmp/PackageOperation01
sudo mount --bind PackageOperation01 /tmp/PackageOperation01
$ANDROID_HOME/tools/bin/sdkmanager "system-images;android-29;google_apis;x86_64"

Answer 4

Chris Moller's answer made me curious to check source code if there is better way how to fix this /tmp/ issue. And I can see that Android studio 2.3 has option STUDIO_VM_OPTIONS which allows specify file with JDK options.

So you can just use snippet below and /var/tmp/androidTmp will be use instead of /tmp

echo "-Djava.io.tmpdir=/var/tmp/androidTmp" > ~/android-studio-tmp.fix
STUDIO_VM_OPTIONS=~/android-studio.fix android-studio

Answer 5

From this comment on a blog post work for me:

• Create a directory

  $ mkdir /opt/android-studio/tmp

• At the top of studio.sh add:

  export _JAVA_OPTIONS=-Djava.io.tmpdir=/opt/android-studio/tmp

Answer 6

I succeed to unzip manually a system image to Sdk/system-images/android-xx after android studio flooded my 4GB tmp partition ...

Thus we have just to unzip to the right place.

Apparently it creates a /tmp/PackageOperationxx for each download, perform the download, ask you to proceed, unzip the content in tmp and move it to the right place.

Seriously android guys ...