Is disk space shown in Compute Engine -> Disk on google cloud ,the drive that packages get installed?

Question

I'm trying to install nightly version of pytorch on my google cloud account using the following command

pip3 install --pre torch torchvision torchaudio --extra-index-url https://download.pytorch.org/whl/nightly/cu113

But I receive the following error

ERROR: Could not install packages due to an EnvironmentError: [Errno 28] No space left on device

Then I can't do anything else as my disk is filled. I try

pip3 uninstall pytorch

and I get the message

WARNING: Skipping pytorch as it is not installed.

So my questions are 3 fold:

1. Considering that I have just purchased this account, why disk space is already filled?
2. Now that I can't uninstall the package, how can I remove the downloaded pytorch files to open up some space?
3. When I click on Compute Engine -> Disk, I see that the size of the disk is 100GB, so why I can't install a simple pytorch package?

Answer 1

Most likely it is you are trying to download the data to your /tmp temporary location.

You can set your TMPDIR directory to /var/tmp by running the following command:

export TMPDIR='/var/tmp'

As mentioned in the Github link, you can also create a directory where you have enough space, say /folder/address/here/, and run below command to install it:

TMPDIR=/folder/address/here/ pip install --cache-dir=$TMPDIR --build $TMPDIR package-name

As suggested by @John Hanley The Google Console GUI supports resizing the disk larger.You can resize your disk at least 10 GB larger and then do disk clean up.

Refer to the stack post for more information.