Includes debugging tips in CONTRIBUTING.md
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For MacOS, you may find installing from https://github.com/kubernetes/minikube/releases may be
more stable than using Homebrew.
- To interact with your minikube cluster, run the command: `minikube start`, this creates a kubectl context that contains the configuration to communicate with your cluster.
+ To interact with your minikube cluster, run the command: `minikube start`, this starts a local kubernetes cluster using VM. This command assumes that you have already installed one of the VM drivers: virtualbox/
2. Install helm to manage Kubernetes charts,
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All features should work, including building and launching.
+### Debugging tips
+
+There is an option to configure the disk size of the minikube VM on start using the flag `minikube start --disk-size string` the default value is "20g".
+
+If you get a Disk Available error you can run `minikube delete` and then reinstall binderhub following the installation guide above.
+
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