Prune distance block / prune distance

[TheZoner]

Is there an estimated current size of the main node in archive mode?
To save disk space, I tried running the archive version in sectors with:
--prune.mode=archive
--prune.distance=3000000
--prune.distance.blocks=0
to fully analyze these blocks before moving on to:
--prune.mode=archive
--prune.distance=6000000
--prune.distance.blocks=3000000
and so on, but it doesn't seem to work...
Between each prune, deleting the data directories.

Originally posted by @TheZoner in #13950

[Giulio2002]

can you please give more details?