How large is your .Spotlight-V100 folder?

[Mitthrawnuruodo]

When Spotlight's indexing an partition (HD), the restult is is stored in a hidden folder .Spotlight-V100 at the root of that partition (according to a couple of other threads, not mentioning size). Since space always is an issue on my iBook, I was wondering how large this file gets (on somebody's main hard drive).

Anyone with Tiger who can tell me how much space this folder takes?

 

[wrc fan]

It's 176 MB on my disk (which has 62.42 GB used)

 

[solaris]

How are you able to see the size of that folder?
Neither "ls -la" or WhatSize are able to to display that...

 

[Mitthrawnuruodo]

du -sk /.Spotlight-V100 should give you the answer in kilobytes...

 

[solaris]

du -sk /.Spotlight-V100 should give you the answer in kilobytes...

Thanks. sudo du -sk /.Spotlight-V100 worked. 163628 KB here...

 

[powerbook911]

49200 here.

What is that? 49MB? It didn't tell me what it was in, when it displayed 49200.

 

[Mitthrawnuruodo]

49200 here.

What is that? 49MB? It didn't tell me what it was in, when it displayed 49200.

If you used du -sk, the k makes the answer to come back in kilobytes, so yours is 49.200 KB ≈ 48 MB...

Thanks for the results... I now breath a bit easier about Spotlight's demands...

 

[Cali_Man]

You breathe a bit easier knowing that its half a gig? I hate to think what you would consider too large....

 

[Mitthrawnuruodo]

You breathe a bit easier knowing that its half a gig? I hate to think what you would consider too large....

The three results given in this thread is 176, 160 and 48 MB... Who had ~500 MB...?

 

[Character Zero]

isn't that more like 1/20 a gig?

 

[Mitthrawnuruodo]

isn't that more like 1/20 a gig?

powerbook911's result, yes...

 

[Cali_Man]

Right.... Man I've been working too much today!

 

[stoid]

I'm at only 24,364K = 23.79MB

 

[spriter]

61MB on my iBook which I try to keep lite (10/27GB used).