| 3 Apr 2026 |
 emily | still seems like a surprising amount of junk | 22:53:11 |
 hexa | yeah | 22:53:24 |
| hexa | but that makes it more plausible to pick the 512GB disks and go for 6 new mac minis | 22:53:57 |
| emily | yeah, given that it only presumably needs to hold the system and the working set / build dirs for whatever builds it's running, I assume it should be | 22:54:30 |
| emily | * yeah, given that it only presumably needs to hold the system and the working set / build dirs for whatever builds it's running, I assume it should be fine | 22:54:32 |
| emily | maybe some builds have really huge build dirs, but those will also likely be big-parallel and so little contention | 22:54:47 |
| emily | did nothing stand out in ncdu? | 22:54:55 |
| hexa | 
Download | 22:55:46 |
| emily | /private is /var + /tmp | 22:56:18 |
| emily |
/etc I guess but I hope it's not /etc
| 22:56:27 |
| emily | * + /etc I guess but I hope it's not /etc | 22:56:30 |
 alexfmpe | apparently I'm unable to get this room in particular in the suggestions when trying to #-mention it in another on element web client | 22:56:49 |
| alexfmpe | probably related, what is up with the room name? | 22:57:01 |
| emily | btw, /macOS Install Data is not load-bearing 😅 | 22:57:14 |
| alexfmpe | e.g.
https://app.element.io/#/room/!lheuhImcToQZYTQTuI:nixos.org
vs
https://app.element.io/#/room/#cross-compiling:nixos.org | 22:57:17 |
| hexa | 
Download | 22:57:20 |
| emily | that's just an update installer that's lying around | 22:57:21 |
| emily | so there's 3 free gigs already | 22:57:28 |
| hexa | 
Download | 22:57:38 |
| emily | ok, /var/folders is temporary directories | 22:57:45 |
| emily | (per-user etc.) | 22:57:55 |
| emily | so something is using crazy amounts of $TMPDIR | 22:58:03 |
| hexa | it will be nix, right? | 22:58:13 |
| emily | probably not? | 22:58:20 |
| emily | Nix uses /tmp and /nix/var/nix/builds | 22:58:24 |
| hexa | 
Download | 22:58:28 |
| hexa | 
Download | 22:58:40 |
| emily | you can get stuff in /var/folders running commands as a user, but it'd be pretty surprising for it to use up tons of space because of being a builder I feel | 22:58:44 |
| hexa | uh, wanna hop on a quick call instead of spamming this room? | 22:58:50 |
| emily | honestly I should really be going to sleep rather than getting sniped by this 🫠 | 22:59:17 |
