A Github workflow extract showing how to bypass the Github Actions Disk Space Limit on Windows to allow you to build larger projects. Here we want to build polars on rust, but the windows default machie runs out of space. so we checkout the files onto the c drive and run everything from there.

github_workflow.yml

  windows-rust-test:
    if: ${{ !inputs.skip_tests }}
    name: Windows Rust Tests
    runs-on: windows-latest
    steps:
      - run : mkdir C:\raphtory
      - name: Checkout code
        uses: actions/checkout@v3
      - run : Xcopy "D:\a\Raphtory\Raphtory" "C:\raphtory" /E/I/H/Y
      - name: Set up cargo cache
        uses: actions/cache@v3
        continue-on-error: false
        with:
          path: |
            ~/.cargo/bin/
            ~/.cargo/registry/index/
            ~/.cargo/registry/cache/
            ~/.cargo/git/db/
          key: ${{ runner.os }}-cargo-${{ hashFiles('**/Cargo.lock') }}
          restore-keys: ${{ runner.os }}-cargo-${{ hashFiles('**/Cargo.lock') }}
      - uses: actions-rs/toolchain@v1
        name: Setup Rust
        with:
          profile: minimal
          toolchain: stable
          override: true
          components: rustfmt, clippy
      - name: manual rust test
        run: |
          cd c:\raphtory && C:\Users\runneradmin\.cargo\bin\cargo.exe test --all --no-default-features --features 'raphtory/io raphtory/python'