On 11 Aug., 12:50, John Cremona <john.crem...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Thu, Aug 11, 2011 at 11:41 AM, John Cremona <john.crem...@gmail.com> wrote: > > After building Sage the amount of filespace used is (as we all know) > > rather large. I was just checking a 4.7 install, which is not used > > for any development pusposes, and is on a machine which I use but do > > not own, and where I was just told that the filespace was getting > > short, and found that the SAGE_ROOT was taking up 15GB of which 5.5GB > > is in devel and 8.4GB in local. > > PS: A sage-4.6.2 install was only 3.8G. Now I know that 4.7 was alot > better than 4.6.2, but FOUR times the size?
On the same machine (and filesystem)? The size of devel/sage (which is just a symbolic link) indicates that the block size of the filesystem where the "huge" Sage installation lives is quite large, such that even very small files take up a lot of disk space. There are also differences between different architectures (i.e. 32- bit vs. 64-bit, and CISC vs. RISC, e.g. SPARC), but I don't think that matters here. -leif P.S.: You can safely delete devel/old/ etc. and $SAGE_ROOT/spkg/build/ in case it exists. -- To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URL: http://www.sagemath.org