On Apr 8, 2021, at 13:05, Nils Breunese wrote: > Ryan Schmidt wrote: > >> Both copies of the simulator caches came back again. I filed FB9072613 with >> Apple about this. We were down to 3GB free disk space which isn't a good >> place to be. I deleted the caches again and marked the dyld directories >> chmod 000. Let's see if that prevents Xcode from recreating the caches, >> hopefully without causing error messages that cause builds to fail. We now >> have 21GB free. > > I recently learned that 'xcrun simctl delete unavailable’ and 'xcrun simctl > delete all’ exist. Those commands can be used to reclaim disk space in use by > Xcode simulators. Not sure if they could be of use in this scenario.
I haven't tried that. I not only want to delete them, I also want them not to get recreated in the future. I don't know whether those commands would accomplish that. If my preceding attempt of making the dyld directories unreadable and unwritable does not work, I may look into your suggestion.