[OSX-Users] Re: spotlight or mail piggy-ness?

[Philip Boulain]

On 24 Apr 2009, at 15:07, m.c. schraefel wrote:
> -rw-------@  1 mc    staff     15364 17 Apr 17:59 .DS_Store
> drwx------   3 mc    staff       102 23 Apr 09:34 .Spotlight-V100
>
> is there somewhere i should be poking to see what's going on to be ?

.Spotlight-V100 is a directory, so try

du -hc .Spotlight-V100

For example:

phil at parsley:/$ ll -d .Spotlight-V100
drw-------   8 root  admin  272B  4 Nov  2006 .Spotlight-V100
phil at parsley:/$ sudo du -hc .Spotlight-V100/
Password:
509M    .Spotlight-V100/
509M    total

That's a 200GB drive, 171GB used, but quite a lot of that is in few,  
large files (VM images), so a couple of hundred megs for mail sounds  
plausible. (Mail.App's storage is, IIRC, one-file-per-message.)

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