> Christopher Jones <[email protected]> wrote: >> I've previously used Grand Perspective to examine the disk space usage of >> the build machines and didn't see anything big, but it turns out Grand >> Perspective doesn't include items whose names begin with a period, and >> that's where the problem was: the .Spotlight-V100 directory on the 10.7 >> builder was 36GiB the first time I looked and 26GiB the second time I >> looked, and on the 10.8 builder it was 16GiB. I've deleted the Spotlight >> indexes on all the builders and hopefully when they're done rebuilding >> they'll be smaller. > > I wouldn’t use applications like that for this sort of thing, for that very > reason. Then tend to try and be just a bit too clever for my tastes. > > In the end, I tend to just rely on good old dumb ‘df -h’ …
I’d recommend using ncdu for this. It’s a brilliant CLI tool to drill down when looking for what is using a lot of space and MacPorts has a port for it. ;o) Nils.
