Re: [Cs-club] Linux account quota

[Rene Horn <hornr18@vaxa.cis.uwosh.edu>]

Brian Haynes wrote:

> I have a little problem.  My linux account on the lab computers is at about 58% full right 
> now and there's not much more I can do with it.  I tar-ed up the one program directory that 
> I'm not working on and deleted the directory.  I even deleted my background image, but that 
> only got me a scarce 1% back.  I am pretty sure I already have an rm command in my 
> .bashrc_local file to remove history from konqueror and netscape.  I can't think of 
> anything else to do to get it down lower.  Anyone have any ideas?  If it's not possible to 
> run in Linux with less than 58% of my quota full, then they need to give us some more space.
>     Thanks,
>     Brian
>
>  
Make sure you do a make clean in all your directories, and get rid of 
all those superfluous object files.

Go grab WinSCP ( http://winscp.vse.cz/eng/ ) and start storing stuff on 
your own machines.

Finally, /tmp has no quotas.  I would suggest copying your stuff into 
that directory, and compiling it there.  Once you're done, do a make 
clean and copy it back.  You could even tar-gzip it before you copy it back.

Rene

PS bzip2 does a much better job of compressing files than gzip, but it's 
slower.  tar can handle bzip2 files with the 'j' option substituted in 
for any 'z' options.

For example, to tar-bzip2 a directory called pgm1, the command would 
look like this:
$ tar -cjvf pgm1.tar.bz2 pgm1

To extract pgm1 from that file:
$ tar -xjvf pgm1.tar.bz2

Rene