[MITgcm-devel] Re: Home Space full

[marshall-admin at techsquare.com]

hello dfer-

disks are finite resources and accounts
tend to accumulate. yes, quotas can help
(which we do track presently), but they
are no "magick bullet" to the "why do 
drives fill up with data" problem.

the real answer is "sometimes you have 
to delete things." 

secondly, you should know how to save your
current file to another file-space in vi.
you can usually write it to /tmp, for example,
long enough to fixup your own quota issues
and copy the file back to your home directory
afterwards.

[greg]


> Date: Mon, 07 Apr 2008 09:59:03 -0400
> From: David Ferreira <dfer at mit.edu>
> MIME-Version: 1.0
> CC: Jean-Michel Campin <jmc at ocean.mit.edu>,   marshall-admin at techsquare.com
> 
> What about setting up quotas on the
> home space disk ?
> Considering that any empty space is automatically
> filled up, the problem is probably going to reappear
> in 6 months even if some home directories are moved
> to an empty disk, no ?
> Quotas would at least create a place where it is
> (almost) never possible to have a full disk,
> which, for example, would avoid loosing pieces
> of code because vi cannot close (a very personnal
> plea at this point you'll note).
> Quid ?
> david
> 
> 
> 
> marshall-admin at techsquare.com wrote:
> > hello jmc-
> > 
> > 
> >>orwell.csail.mit.edu:/export/export-7/u 
> >>is full (and my Home dir is on this disk).
> > 
> > 
> > that is not good. fwiw, all home directories
> > currently live at /export/export-7. there is
> > a new volume ready (ne /u/u4) that has plenty
> > of room. would you like to schedule some time
> > to move there ? 
> > 
> > 
> >>It's annoying because the MITgcm testing (all test-run emails) 
> >>+ web page build + manual-build need, at some point or an 
> >>other, to have a write access to my home dir. 
> > 
> > 
> > in the perfect world, these bits would be re-factored
> > so that they were not dependent on anyone's home directory.
> > 
> > 
> >>I don't think I am using much space on this disk, and
> >>would be painful to move to an other disk the few cron
> >>jobs I am running.
> > 
> > 
> > you are using almost 1.9G. 
> > 
> > 
> >>Can you find an other solution ?
> > 
> > 
> > looking...
> > 
> > 
> >>Thanks,
> >>Jean-Michel
> >>
> >>On Fri, Apr 04, 2008 at 09:50:10PM -0400, Cron Daemon wrote:
> >>
> >>>cp: closing `./testing.xml': No space left on device
> >>>mkdir: cannot create directory `html': No space left on device
> >>>ERROR: can't open ">./html/news.html"
> >>>make[1]: *** [all] Error 2
> >>>make: *** [install] Error 2
> > 
> > 
> > [greg]
> > 
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