Wow, ht://Dig eats up a lot of disk space. How can I cut down?
There are several ways to cut down on disk space. One is not to use the “-a” option, which creates work copies of the databases. Naturally this essentially doubles the disk usage. If you don’t need to index and search at the same time, you can ignore this flag. If you are running 3.2.0b5 or higher and don’t have compression turned on, then turning that on will also save considerable space. Changing configuration variables can also help cut down on disk usage. Decreasing max_head_length and max_meta_description_length will cut down on the size of the excerpts stored (in fact, if you don’t have use_meta_description set, you can set max_meta_description_length to 0!). If you are running 3.2.0b6 or higher, you can turn off store_phrases. This cuts the database size by about 60%, at the expense of severely limiting the effectiveness of phrase searches. It also reduces digging time slightly. Other techniques include removing the db.wordlist file and adding more words to the bad_words file. T
