Or take your backup life into your own hands and set the environment variable GMX_MAXBACKUP=-1
Mark On Thu, May 23, 2013 at 7:04 PM, Justin Lemkul <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On 5/23/13 12:53 PM, mu xiaojia wrote: > >> Dear users, >> >> I have used gromacs a while, however, sometime, when I run it on >> supercomputer-clusters, I saw mdrun will generate a lot of files with "#", >> which occupied a lot of space, does anyone know why and how to avoid it? >> >> Thanks >> >> example, my command"mdrun_mpi -s -deffnm job -cpi -append" >> >> then besides ordinary md result files, it will also generate things like: >> >> #job.xtc.1# #job.xvg.1# job >> >> > These are backups of previous runs that have been issued with the same > command. All Gromacs commands have this behavior - rather than overwriting > your files, it backs them up. Either clean up your directories prior to > issuing your commands, or use unique file names or directories. > > -Justin > > -- > ==============================**========== > > Justin A. Lemkul, Ph.D. > Research Scientist > Department of Biochemistry > Virginia Tech > Blacksburg, VA > jalemkul[at]vt.edu | (540) 231-9080 > http://www.bevanlab.biochem.**vt.edu/Pages/Personal/justin<http://www.bevanlab.biochem.vt.edu/Pages/Personal/justin> > > ==============================**========== > > -- > gmx-users mailing list [email protected] > http://lists.gromacs.org/**mailman/listinfo/gmx-users<http://lists.gromacs.org/mailman/listinfo/gmx-users> > * Please search the archive at http://www.gromacs.org/** > Support/Mailing_Lists/Search<http://www.gromacs.org/Support/Mailing_Lists/Search>before > posting! > * Please don't post (un)subscribe requests to the list. Use the www > interface or send it to [email protected]. > * Can't post? Read > http://www.gromacs.org/**Support/Mailing_Lists<http://www.gromacs.org/Support/Mailing_Lists> > -- gmx-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gromacs.org/mailman/listinfo/gmx-users * Please search the archive at http://www.gromacs.org/Support/Mailing_Lists/Search before posting! * Please don't post (un)subscribe requests to the list. Use the www interface or send it to [email protected]. * Can't post? Read http://www.gromacs.org/Support/Mailing_Lists
