Hello! Firstly, thank you for this great IDE it is awesome!
I saw that a project has around 10 GB available of working space. But for python projects this is sometimes too little. I am not too good with the linux os, so there may be more space that I could use and I don’t know, but for the home directory where my project is, I found out that this was the allocated space. Is it possible to increase the storage space of a project and how may I do that? Or is there another directory that I could use for more storage space in my project?
I have searched in the documentation of the IDE or on the internet, but I could not find an answer.
Hi @Tiberiu_Danciu - we currently don’t provide a way to have more storage space! This is something we’ll look into and (hopefully) have more to share in the near future.
Well for that project I think 20-30 GB would have been enough. It was a project where I worked with a big pdf file, around 700 MB. I had to split it in smaller parts and do some OCR. The python packages, I think, got the biggest part of the storage space. When I tried to use easyOCR I had found out that I hadn’t enough space anymore to get all the needed packages.
I don’t know if this would be possible, but it would be great if we could have an option to use our google drive storage for bigger projects like this
Hi @Felipe_Reis - we are still working through this. This is a bit more complicated than most changes we make because there are a lot of factors here. Hypothetically speaking, if we give you 50GB, would that meet your needs?
Yep, tried to yarn install our packages for our production monorepo and hitting the 10 GB limit. Project IDX is unusable for us at work, what a pain and waste of time this morning.
ENOSPC: no space left on device - when running yarn install using yarn-berry.
Project IDX unusable for a serious project as we can’t even install our project dependencies. Quite annoyed.
@kirupa Do we have some estimate on when will be the new storage limit available? Or at least if it’s something the team is actively working on, or just being considered.
In the meantime it would be great if you could increase the limit under request, like you’re doing with the number of workspaces limit.
@lasantosr We’re actively exploring ways to do this. Unfortunately we don’t have a easy way to increase the limit per workspace from existing technical constraints
Also curious, can you help us with use cases? My personal initial thought process was that fullstack app developments wouldn’t need that much disk space. Of course this depends on the app but I’m curious about its usage patterns. Is this for scratch storage? Does this it need to be fast? Read heavy, write heavy or both?
It’s a monorepo of a modular monolith with multiple services and an api presenter, so it’s quite a big workspace with many crates and a lot of dependencies (as each service has a different purpose)
In Rust, dependencies are individually downloaded and compiled, so just building the project requires above 30Gb.
It’s not really I/O intensive, just need the storage capacity.
