title: Docker Error response from daemon: Error processing tar file(exit status 1): no space left on device
body: <p>I need to create a docker's image from a virtual box image. The file is 16GB. When I run the command line <code># tar -c . | docker import - &lt;myImagename&gt;</code> appear this error below.</p>
  <p>P.S. : The container is empty.</p>
  <p>Error:</p>
  <blockquote>
  <p>Error response from daemon: Error processing tar file(exit status 1):
  write
  /var/lib/docker/overlay2/f8bb15057c3b3578c13e1122be1d00ca72b3301b7a0bf27262edc759e9f207fb/diff/var/lib/docker/overlay2/f8bb15057c3b3578c13e1122be1d00ca72b3301b7a0bf27262edc759e9f207fb/diff/var/lib/cassandra/commitlog/CommitLog-6-1633100360364.log:
  no space left on device</p>
  </blockquote>
  <p>Docker info:</p>
  <pre><code>Client:
   Context:    default
   Debug Mode: false
   Plugins:
    app: Docker App (Docker Inc., v0.9.1-beta3)
    buildx: Build with BuildKit (Docker Inc., v0.6.1-docker)
    scan: Docker Scan (Docker Inc., v0.8.0)
  
  Server:
   Containers: 0
    Running: 0
    Paused: 0
    Stopped: 0
   Images: 1
   Server Version: 20.10.8
   Storage Driver: overlay2
    Backing Filesystem: xfs
    Supports d_type: true
    Native Overlay Diff: true
    userxattr: false
   Logging Driver: json-file
   Cgroup Driver: cgroupfs
   Cgroup Version: 1
   Plugins:
    Volume: local
    Network: bridge host ipvlan macvlan null overlay
    Log: awslogs fluentd gcplogs gelf journald json-file local logentries splunk syslog
   Swarm: inactive
   Runtimes: io.containerd.runc.v2 io.containerd.runtime.v1.linux runc
   Default Runtime: runc
   Init Binary: docker-init
   containerd version: e25210fe30a0a703442421b0f60afac609f950a3
   runc version: v1.0.1-0-g4144b63
   init version: de40ad0
   Security Options:
    seccomp
     Profile: default
   Kernel Version: 3.10.0-1127.el7.x86_64
   Operating System: CentOS Linux 7 (Core)
   OSType: linux
   Architecture: x86_64
   CPUs: 1
   Total Memory: 15.51GiB
   Name: GDBDEV03
   ID: UGGJ:AIIA:7C44:DZXR:PNYH:2WQH:GPKI:TFUL:N2WZ:5RRB:X3JK:VU3B
   Docker Root Dir: /var/lib/docker
   Debug Mode: false
   Registry: https://index.docker.io/v1/
   Labels:
   Experimental: false
   Insecure Registries:
    127.0.0.0/8
   Live Restore Enabled: false
  </code></pre>
  <p><strong>EDIT</strong></p>
  <pre><code>[root@GDBDEV03 chroot0]# df -h
  Filesystem               Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
  devtmpfs                 7.8G     0  7.8G   0% /dev
  tmpfs                    7.8G     0  7.8G   0% /dev/shm
  tmpfs                    7.8G  8.7M  7.8G   1% /run
  tmpfs                    7.8G     0  7.8G   0% /sys/fs/cgroup
  /dev/mapper/centos-root   14G   13G  1.3G  91% /
  /dev/sda1               1014M  152M  863M  15% /boot
  tmpfs                    1.6G     0  1.6G   0% /run/user/0
  </code></pre>