Running the du command (which took quite a bit of time to run), mine was 
21GB. That might have been why the docbuild for me was hanging after it had 
finished tutorial... Trying now.

Best,
Travis


On Friday, August 24, 2018 at 6:13:11 AM UTC+10, John H Palmieri wrote:
>
> I found that my Sage documentation directory was taking up 15GB of hard 
> drive space, because of a bug (which I think has been fixed, but I don't 
> remember where). The bug was caused by a recursive symlink
>
>     local/share/mathjax/mathjax -> local/share/mathjax
>
> When the contents of local/share/mathjax were copied to various _static 
> directories in the html documentation, rather than just reproducing the 
> symlink, it created many layers of subdirectories; for example, 
> ca/intro/_static/mathjax/mathjax/mathjax/... Basically mathjax all the way 
> down. I don't know if this happened all at once, or once each time I built 
> the documentation.
>
> To see if you have this problem, see if you have the symlink. You might 
> also find out how much disk space local/share/doc/sage takes up (for 
> example, "du -s -h /path/to/SAGE_ROOT/local/share/doc/sage"). On my 
> computer, it is 1.9GB. If you are using up a lot more space than that, you 
> might have hit this bug.
>
> To fix: remove the symlink SAGE_ROOT/local/share/mathjax/mathjax. Then run 
> "make doc-clean" to remove the old documentation, and then run "make" to 
> rebuild the documentation.
>
> Question:
>
> - has the bug been fixed, or is that symlink still being created?
>
> -- 
> John
>
>

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