It seems I haven’t done any cleanup on my cached pi pictures in quite some time. I took a look today and the cache folder had ballooned much larger than I had ever seen!
******:zenwerx.com/pi/cache$ ls | grep -c png
6544
******:zenwerx.com/pi/cache$ du . -h
2.0G .
6500 images totalling 2GB! Oh, and I accidentally deleted the browsing script when I cleaned up too. Whoops! Thank goodness it was just a symbolic link, but it had me worried for a bit!
Update – June 24th
Apparently the Pi picture script has been broken for a few months (ever since the server was upgraded). The permissions were set incorrectly on the cache folder and the script couldn’t save any images there. It’s all fixed now, but I wonder how big the folder would have been if there hadn’t been an issue…
