Re: [Freesurfer] Can I skip some folders to install freesurfer

2013-03-06 Thread Dian Jiao
Thanks for the info, Nick. That is very helpful. Our install partition has limited size. So the idea is not to get rid of anything, but rather move these big data files somewhere else with much larger disk quota. I guess I could move the whole subject away. As long as SUBJECTS_DIR is set

Re: [Freesurfer] Can I skip some folders to install freesurfer

2013-03-06 Thread Nick Schmansky
DJ, symbolic links would work. for instance: cd freesurfer mv average path_to_larg_disk_space/freesurfer_data ln -s path_to_larg_disk_space/freesurfer_data/average then you should have a link to average remaining in the freesurfer dir but the space is consumed elsewhere. Nick On Wed,

Re: [Freesurfer] Can I skip some folders to install freesurfer

2013-03-05 Thread Nick Schmansky
DJ, Agreed that the distribution has gotten bloated. In future releases I'd like to change it to not include most of the data and to have recon-all or other utilities print a 'wget' command to use to download the data when needed. I've updated the ReleaseNotes section with a list of some