Re: [Wien] Query regarding wien2k_scratch directory

2024-04-29 Thread Laurence Marks
You *really* should be doing your own searching on this rather than posting here. https://askubuntu.com/questions/1487330/what-is-a-tracker3-folder-inside-home-cache-is-it-safe ___ Professor Laurence Marks (Laurie) Walter P Murphy Professor Emeritus Department of Materials Science and Engineering,

Re: [Wien] Query regarding wien2k_scratch directory

2024-04-29 Thread shamik chakrabarti
Also, it is found that *tracker 3 contains all the 12 GB space, *should I remove this folder or the files inside it? On Mon, 29 Apr 2024 at 23:40, shamik chakrabarti wrote: > Dear Prof. Gavin, > > After invoking all the commands you have listed I have come to know > that *.cache *folder co

Re: [Wien] Query regarding wien2k_scratch directory

2024-04-29 Thread shamik chakrabarti
Dear Prof. Gavin, After invoking all the commands you have listed I have come to know that *.cache *folder contains 12 GB of space. .cache folder contains the followings; event-sound-cache.tdb.bb916188e665483abe367841b820014a.x86_64-pc-linux-gnu gstreamer-1.0 pip ubuntu-repor

Re: [Wien] Query regarding wien2k_scratch directory

2024-04-28 Thread Gavin Abo
The operating system /var log files I typically would not remove.  Before attempting to remove any of them, I would ask the operating system experts if it would be safe to do so.  For Ubuntu for example, I think those experts would be over in the Ubuntu forums at [1]. The 15 GB is quite large

Re: [Wien] Query regarding wien2k_scratch directory

2024-04-27 Thread shamik chakrabarti
Sir, also it is showing 139 Mb however my device space get decreased by almost 15 GB On Sat, 27 Apr 2024 at 22:51, shamik chakrabarti wrote: > total 139M > 4.0K drwxr-x--- 28 shamik shamik 4.0K Apr 26 23:48 . > 4.0K drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4.0K Jun 25 2023 .. > 32K -rw--- 1 shamik sha

Re: [Wien] Query regarding wien2k_scratch directory

2024-04-27 Thread shamik chakrabarti
total 139M 4.0K drwxr-x--- 28 shamik shamik 4.0K Apr 26 23:48 . 4.0K drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4.0K Jun 25 2023 .. 32K -rw--- 1 shamik shamik 32K Apr 26 18:58 .bash_history 4.0K -rw-r--r-- 1 shamik shamik 220 Jun 25 2023 .bash_logout 8.0K -rw-r--r-- 1 shamik shamik 5.2K Jun 26 2023 .

Re: [Wien] Query regarding wien2k_scratch directory

2024-04-27 Thread Peter Blaha
ls -alsh Am 27.04.2024 um 17:57 schrieb shamik chakrabarti: Dear Prof. Gavin,     Yes, wien2k is installed under the /home directory. I have also checked /var. there are log files as mentioned in your reference [1]. In this regard, which files should I remove to recover the lost

Re: [Wien] Query regarding wien2k_scratch directory

2024-04-27 Thread shamik chakrabarti
Dear Prof. Gavin, Yes, wien2k is installed under the /home directory. I have also checked /var. there are log files as mentioned in your reference [1]. In this regard, which files should I remove to recover the lost spaces? with regards, On Sat, 27 Apr 2024 at 17:42, Gavin Abo w

Re: [Wien] Query regarding wien2k_scratch directory

2024-04-27 Thread Gavin Abo
If your WIEN2k cases are located somewhere under the /home directory, is this the directory you are seeing the space increase in? If your looking at the space of the entire storage drive before and after the calculation, another possibility is the increase could be due to normal usage logging

Re: [Wien] Query regarding wien2k_scratch directory

2024-04-27 Thread Tomas Kana
Dear Shamik, I wonder if your problem comes not from using wien2k but from using the batch system when submitting wien2k jobs. In our supercomputing center, when submitting a job, the job is appointed its own unique variable SCRATCHDIR. Further, on our center you have to specify module add wi

Re: [Wien] Query regarding wien2k_scratch directory

2024-04-26 Thread shamik chakrabarti
In that case, after deleting the case directory, the space in hd of Linux should be recovered. But the space is decreasing every time, I ran some calculations and after copying delete the whole directory. On Sat, 27 Apr 2024, 01:48 Tomas Kana, wrote: > The dot and slash ./ means your current dir

Re: [Wien] Query regarding wien2k_scratch directory

2024-04-26 Thread Tomas Kana
The dot and slash ./ means your current directory Dear Sir,     After echo $SCRATCH the output is:   ./ Any comments On Fri, 26 Apr 2024 at 22:14, Peter Blaha wrote: During   userconfig  you have specified a SCRATCH directory. Only you can know what you did there.

Re: [Wien] Query regarding wien2k_scratch directory

2024-04-26 Thread Peter Blaha
Guess what  ./ means. Wien2k stores files ONLY in your "case" directories. Am 26.04.2024 um 20:05 schrieb shamik chakrabarti: Dear Sir,   After echo $SCRATCH the output is:   ./ Any comments On Fri, 26 Apr 2024 at 22:14, Peter Blaha wrote: During   userconfig  you have specified a SCR

Re: [Wien] Query regarding wien2k_scratch directory

2024-04-26 Thread shamik chakrabarti
Dear Sir, After echo $SCRATCH the output is: ./ Any comments On Fri, 26 Apr 2024 at 22:14, Peter Blaha wrote: > During userconfig you have specified a SCRATCH directory. Only you can > know what you did there. > > PS: echo $SCRATCH will tell you, what you specified. > > > Am 26.04.2

Re: [Wien] Query regarding wien2k_scratch directory

2024-04-26 Thread Peter Blaha
During   userconfig  you have specified a SCRATCH directory. Only you can know what you did there. PS:   echo $SCRATCH   will tell you, what you specified. Am 26.04.2024 um 13:30 schrieb shamik chakrabarti: Dear Wien2k users, After running calculations I am saving the da

[Wien] Query regarding wien2k_scratch directory

2024-04-26 Thread shamik chakrabarti
Dear Wien2k users, After running calculations I am saving the data in external hdd while deleting the same from linux. However, at each time, after deleting data, I have found that some amount of spaces are not recovered. Wien2k is saving some files in Linux which I am not abl