Bitcoin source 'make install' take over 2 giga capacity?

[wsxdrfv]

So I am trying customize litecoin(bitcoin) source, after revise code, I typed, 'make', 'make clean', 'sudo make install' at first time.

After that, I revised source many times, but only typed 'make'.

Then it seems not work? Got stuck at generating new genesis block.

So I typed additionally 'make clean', 'sudo make install' after 'make'.

Now suddenly bitcoin folder's size become over 2 giga, almost take all the empty capacity (total 20giga hdd inside virtualbox), system become unstable, even all apps does not appear, can't run terminal itself.

Why this happen? How can I avoid this?

Thanks.

[achow101]

Now suddenly bitcoin folder's size become over 2 giga, almost take all the empty capacity (total 20giga hdd inside virtualbox), system become unstable, even all apps does not appear, can't run terminal itself.

By "bitcoin folder" do you mean the folder containing the source code or do you mean the datadir?

[wsxdrfv]

Now suddenly bitcoin folder's size become over 2 giga, almost take all the empty capacity (total 20giga hdd inside virtualbox), system become unstable, even all apps does not appear, can't run terminal itself.

By "bitcoin folder" do you mean the folder containing the source code or do you mean the datadir?

Folder containing the source code.

[ScripterRon]

Use the 'strip' command to remove debug information from the executables (bitcoind, bitcoin-cli, etc).  This will significantly reduce the size of the executable files.