--- title: 'Nix build progress bar meaning' url: 'https://willifix.net/blog/nix-build-progress-bar-meaning' markdown: 'https://willifix.net/blog/nix-build-progress-bar-meaning.md' date: '2024-12-30' description: "As you can see from my blog, I have been using NixOS under MacOS for some time now. A lot of numbers and values are displayed when building the flake. Unfortunately, I hadn't found anything about this in the Nixos documentation. Only a forum post that explained a few figures. So here are the resu…" --- # Nix build progress bar meaning ## [Nix build progress bar meaning](https://willifix.net/blog/nix-build-progress-bar-meaning) 30th Dec 2024 As you can see from my blog, I have been using NixOS under MacOS for some time now. A lot of numbers and values are displayed when building the flake. ![nixosprogess](https://willifix.net/user/pages/03.blog/nix-build-progress-bar-meaning/nixosprogess.png "nixosprogess") Unfortunately, I hadn't found anything about this in the Nixos documentation. Only a forum post that explained a few figures. So here are the results of my research. The Screenshot above means the following: 4 Packages are currently building 128 Packages builded 486 total to build 1 file currently in copy progress 1212 files copied 1256 files to copy 4287.8 extracted size copied 4417.9 extracted size 1452.8 downloaded 1477.5 to download correct me if i am wrong because i did not found a documentation for this output. link to source: [ Previous Post](https://willifix.net/blog/seafile-11-traefik-config) [Next Post ](https://willifix.net/blog/seafile-12-traefik-configuration) --- ## Navigation - Parent: [Blog](https://willifix.net/blog.md) - Previous: [Seafile 12 traefik configuration](https://willifix.net/blog/seafile-12-traefik-configuration.md) - Next: [Seafile 11 traefik configuration](https://willifix.net/blog/seafile-11-traefik-config.md)