Mongodb build/compile error: not enough memory on Ubuntu - mongodb

Question

Preface so this isn't marked as a duplicate: I've seen lots of mongodb memory issues posted on stack overflow, but none that have to do with errors on the compilation.
I just freshly downloaded and ran Ubuntu on Virtualbox (on a mac), so I feel like there should be enough memory. However, when I try to compile Mongodb from the source code I've gotten the following errors about an hour into the compilation (I have done this a few times now)
scons: *** [<whatever file it was working on>] No space left on device
scons: building terminated because of errors
and on a separate occasion
IOError: [Errno 28] No space left on device:
File "/usr/lib/scons/SCons/Script/Main.py", line 1359:
_exec_main(parser, values)
File "/usr/lib/scons/SCons/Script/Main.py", line 1323:
_main(parser)
File "/usr/lib/scons/SCons/Script/Main.py", line 1072:
nodes = _build_targets(fs, options, targets, target_top)
File "/usr/lib/scons/SCons/Script/Main.py", line 1281:
jobs.run(postfunc = jobs_postfunc)
File "/usr/lib/scons/SCons/Job.py", line 113:
postfunc()
File "/usr/lib/scons/SCons/Script/Main.py", line 1278:
SCons.SConsign.write()
File "/usr/lib/scons/SCons/SConsign.py", line 109:
syncmethod()
File "/usr/lib/scons/SCons/dblite.py", line 117:
self._pickle_dump(self._dict, f, 1)
Exception IOError: (28, 'No space left on device') in <bound method dblite.__del__ of <SCons.dblite.dblite object at 0x7fbe2a577dd0>> ignored
I've tried both of the following build commands:
scons all --dbg=on -j1
scons --dbg=on -j1
According to VirtualBox the virtual size is 8 GB and the Actual size is 4.09 GB. Also, if it makes the difference, the odds that the memory on my mac is actually full is slim to none.
Any help would be greatly appreciated, thanks in advance.
EDIT: I've tried creating more memory (24 GB) and resizing partitions but I still cannot complete a build.
Here is the output of the df -T command:
Filesystem Type 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda1 ext4 15345648 14304904 238184 99% /
none tmpfs 4 0 4 0% /sys/fs/cgroup
udev devtmpfs 1014316 12 1014304 1% /dev
tmpfs tempfs 205012 860 204152 1% /run
none tempfs 5120 0 5120 0% /run/lock
none tempfs 1025052 152 1024900 1% /run/shm
none tempfs 102400 40 102360 1% /run/user

Answer 1

When you say memory, I believe you mean disk space. Try running the command
df -T to see what % usage you really have. You will probably need to resize the amount of space virtualbox has assigned to your image, as well as resize your repartition. It may be simpler to just create a new virtualbox image with 16 or 24GB of disk space.
If you decide to go the resize partition route, here is a helpful resource: https://askubuntu.com/questions/126153/how-to-resize-partitions