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| 1 | .. SPDX-License-Identifier: CC-BY-SA-2.0-UK | ||
| 2 | |||
| 3 | Conserving Disk Space | ||
| 4 | ********************* | ||
| 5 | |||
| 6 | Conserving Disk Space During Builds | ||
| 7 | =================================== | ||
| 8 | |||
| 9 | To help conserve disk space during builds, you can add the following | ||
| 10 | statement to your project's ``local.conf`` configuration file found in | ||
| 11 | the :term:`Build Directory`:: | ||
| 12 | |||
| 13 | INHERIT += "rm_work" | ||
| 14 | |||
| 15 | Adding this statement deletes the work directory used for | ||
| 16 | building a recipe once the recipe is built. For more information on | ||
| 17 | "rm_work", see the :ref:`ref-classes-rm-work` class in the | ||
| 18 | Yocto Project Reference Manual. | ||
| 19 | |||
| 20 | When you inherit this class and build a ``core-image-sato`` image for a | ||
| 21 | ``qemux86-64`` machine from an Ubuntu 22.04 x86-64 system, you end up with a | ||
| 22 | final disk usage of 22 Gbytes instead of &MIN_DISK_SPACE; Gbytes. However, | ||
| 23 | &MIN_DISK_SPACE_RM_WORK; Gbytes of initial free disk space are still needed to | ||
| 24 | create temporary files before they can be deleted. | ||
| 25 | |||
| 26 | Purging Obsolete Shared State Cache Files | ||
| 27 | ========================================= | ||
| 28 | |||
| 29 | After multiple build iterations, the Shared State (sstate) cache can contain | ||
| 30 | multiple cache files for a given package, consuming a substantial amount of | ||
| 31 | disk space. However, only the most recent ones are likely to be reused. | ||
| 32 | |||
| 33 | The following command is a quick way to purge all the cache files which | ||
| 34 | haven't been used for a least a specified number of days:: | ||
| 35 | |||
| 36 | find build/sstate-cache -type f -mtime +$DAYS -delete | ||
| 37 | |||
| 38 | The above command relies on the fact that BitBake touches the sstate cache | ||
| 39 | files as it accesses them, when it has write access to the cache. | ||
| 40 | |||
| 41 | You could use ``-atime`` instead of ``-mtime`` if the partition isn't mounted | ||
| 42 | with the ``noatime`` option for a read only cache. | ||
| 43 | |||
| 44 | For more advanced needs, OpenEmbedded-Core also offers a more elaborate | ||
| 45 | command. It has the ability to purge all but the newest cache files on each | ||
| 46 | architecture, and also to remove files that it considers unreachable by | ||
| 47 | exploring a set of build configurations. However, this command | ||
| 48 | requires a full build environment to be available and doesn't work well | ||
| 49 | covering multiple releases. It won't work either on limited environments | ||
| 50 | such as BSD based NAS:: | ||
| 51 | |||
| 52 | sstate-cache-management.py --remove-duplicated --cache-dir=sstate-cache | ||
| 53 | |||
| 54 | This command will ask you to confirm the deletions it identifies. | ||
| 55 | Run ``sstate-cache-management.py`` for more details about this script. | ||
| 56 | |||
| 57 | .. note:: | ||
| 58 | |||
| 59 | As this command is much more cautious and selective, removing only cache files, | ||
| 60 | it will execute much slower than the simple ``find`` command described above. | ||
| 61 | Therefore, it may not be your best option to trim huge cache directories. | ||
