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I am trying to build the Android Lineage OS from the instructions on the official website. I have initialized with 'repo init' and repo sync'd to download the source code successfully.

However the size I found through right-click properties of the source folder doesn't match available free space on the partition. The properties method shows 21.7 GB and available free space of the partition changed from 92GB to 58.6GB so the source code should be atleast 33GB but it is not.

I have let the download run overnight and haven't done anything else while it was doing so. Does the 'repo' tool store temporary files or have a cache of some sort that needs to be cleaned?

I would like to know this so that if I decide to delete the code later on to free up space I want all of it to be gone.

Note: 'repo sync' did fail once and I had to reissue the command however I believe it should resume and not restart the download. Note: The same thing happened previously. There was unaccounted used space for another Cynogenmod repo I tried to sync. Similarly it was done overnight and I wasn't using the computer during the download. I think there is something else happening here that I missing.

Raghu Velagala
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  • Probably, it is either disk structures or Git metadata – Top Sekret Jul 13 '17 at 09:26
  • @JakubKaszycki Thanks. You were right it is hidden metadata in the '.repo' directory that Nautilus wasn't taking into account. – Raghu Velagala Jul 13 '17 at 12:59
  • I can understand your situation, I have faced same situation, I have ssd partition size of 51 GB, thought it will work but it required 3 GB more required to download repo for my Nexus device I have to re-partition and again have to download all code :( – Siddhpura Amit Mar 12 '18 at 05:43

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Okay I guess this more related to Ubuntu than building Lineage OS/repo. I will leave an answer for others that might come looking.

I was able to get total size using du -sch .[!.]* * | sort -h in terminal.

Nautilus, the file manager that comes with Ubuntu, doesn't count hidden files/folders by default. And for some reason even when I unhid those folders (Ctrl +H) to get size through right-click properties the count kept restarting every ~30s and never really finished.

Raghu Velagala
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