[MITgcm-devel] Re: Home Space full

[David Ferreira]

marshall-admin at techsquare.com wrote:
> 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." 

I certainly agree with this last statement,
but what does make people to delete things so
we don't run regularly into the "disk full
problem"? Two solutions:
1)people care and pay attention to monitor
the use of the disk and delete stuff to avoid
problems for themselves and others 2) the brutal
enforcement of quotas.
I've never seen 1) to work (on myself included).

Ok, I stop spamming at this point.
Cheers,
david

> 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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