I agree that's the main reason why. And if you count how much quota
corresponds
to each user out of 20G you can see it doesnt take much to fill...
BTW, the space that was cleared a few minutes ago is getting obliterated
while I
write, it's sort of fun to watch it with df vanishing...
n
Chi Zhang wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> instead of yanking users out of /home/blast, I think it might be more
> helpful to create an area in the scratch discs that is backed up.
> don't need to be all that often, maybe once a month or even once a
> quater.
>
> I remember it happened to both Adrian and Aaron when considerable
> portion of their work were lost due to scratch disc failure. If the
> scratches on bud10 fail right now, I estimate about a month set back
> on my work. All the ntuples must be refiltered, all the monte carlos
> must be regenerated, plots remade, latest changes to codes must be
> recalled and reprogrammed from the last point saved in CVS.
>
> I believe this is partly the reason why people are reluctant to use
> the scratches but instead put significant amount in home/blast.
>
> also with time, a lot of temporary files could be left on one's home
> dir. they do not show with "ls" command, for example:
> .autosave-*
> .save*
> .backup-*
> .nfs*
> they should be cleaned up regularly.
>
> Thanks.
>
> Chi
>
> On Wed, 30 Nov 2005, Chi Zhang wrote:
>
>>
>> Hi, home blast full.
>>
>> gig-byte users:
>> 2.4G adrian
>> 1.6G karpiusp
>> 1.2G wangxu
>> 0.99 tps
>> 0.99 tong
>>
>> inactive users:
>> 4 drwxr-xr-x 6 doug blast 4096 Dec 21 1999 doug/ (not
>> hassel)
>> 4 drwxr-xr-x 6 buuren blast 4096 Dec 21 1999 buuren/
>> 4 drwxr-xr-x 3 rapaport blast 4096 Dec 21 1999 rapaport/
>> 4 drwxr-xr-x 4 ransom blast 4096 Dec 21 1999 ransom/
>> 4 drwxr-xr-x 7 palarczy man 4096 Dec 21 1999 palarczyk/
>> 4 drwxr-xr-x 15 mcsziget blast 4096 Dec 21 1999 mcsziget/
>> 4 drwxr-xr-x 7 wchall blast 4096 Dec 21 1999 wchall/
>> 4 drwxr-xr-x 6 maxcht man 4096 Mar 31 2000 maxcht/
>> 4 drwxr-xr-x 6 mbutler blast 4096 Aug 29 2000 mbutler/
>> 4 drwxr-xr-x 8 zilong man 4096 May 14 2001 zilong/
>> 4 drwxr-xr-x 7 zapoian man 4096 Jun 19 2001 zapoian/
>> 4 drwxr-xr-x 4 hxiang man 4096 Jun 19 2001 hxiang/
>> 4 drwxr-xr-x 4 alarcon man 4096 Jun 19 2001 alarcon/
>> 4 drwxr-xr-x 7 lmgoggin blast 4096 Aug 1 2001 lmgoggin/
>> 4 drwxr-xr-x 15 ezyryder man 4096 Nov 13 2001 ezyryder/
>> 4 drwxr-xr-x 10 amamo man 4096 Jun 6 2002 amamo/
>> 4 drwxr-xr-x 21 amosser man 4096 Jun 13 2002 amosser/
>> 4 drwxr-xr-x 3 kovash man 4096 Dec 4 2002 kovash/
>> 4 drwxr-xr-x 13 arnesen man 4096 Dec 17 2002 arnesen/
>>
>>
>>
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