+1 for ncdu On Thu, 15 Aug 2019, 11:00 Nils Breunese, <n...@breun.nl> wrote:
> > Christopher Jones <jon...@hep.phy.cam.ac.uk> 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. >
