ENOSPC error while running gatsby develop

[sidntrivedi012]

I was running gatsby develop in my gatsby-starter blog and it gave this error :

success open and validate gatsby-configs - 0.053 s
success load plugins - 23.434 s
success onPreInit - 0.039 s
⠋ initialize cache
/usr/local/lib/node_modules/gatsby-cli/node_modules/yoga-layout-prebuilt/yoga-layout/build/Release/nbind.js:53
        throw ex;
        ^

Error: ENOSPC: no space left on device, watch '/home/sidntrivedi012/sidntrivedi012.github.io/static'
    at FSWatcher.start (internal/fs/watchers.js:164:26)
    at Object.watch (fs.js:1232:11)
    at createFsWatchInstance (/home/sidntrivedi012/sidntrivedi012.github.io/node_modules/chokidar/lib/nodefs-handler.js:38:15)
    at setFsWatchListener (/home/sidntrivedi012/sidntrivedi012.github.io/node_modules/chokidar/lib/nodefs-handler.js:81:15)
    at FSWatcher.NodeFsHandler._watchWithNodeFs (/home/sidntrivedi012/sidntrivedi012.github.io/node_modules/chokidar/lib/nodefs-handler.js:233:14)
    at FSWatcher.NodeFsHandler._handleDir (/home/sidntrivedi012/sidntrivedi012.github.io/node_modules/chokidar/lib/nodefs-handler.js:429:19)
    at FSWatcher.<anonymous> (/home/sidntrivedi012/sidntrivedi012.github.io/node_modules/chokidar/lib/nodefs-handler.js:477:19)
    at FSWatcher.<anonymous> (/home/sidntrivedi012/sidntrivedi012.github.io/node_modules/chokidar/lib/nodefs-handler.js:482:16)

 Can anyone please help me out ?

[wardpeet]

I believe this is a duplicat of #11406

It’s hitting your system's file watchers limit

Try echo fs.inotify.max_user_watches=524288 | sudo tee -a /etc/sysctl.conf && sudo sysctl -p

Read more about what’s happening at https://github.com/guard/listen/wiki/Increasing-the-amount-of-inotify-watchers#the-technical-details

Originally posted by @sidharthachatterjee in #11406 (comment)

Does the above solution work for you?

[sidntrivedi012]

Woww..it does. Thanks a lot @wardpeet 🎉 🎉

[UmarAslamNawab]

yes it is working 200% :)