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Re: Deletion of stored intermediate files: MOINTS

Prasad Yedlapalli
yedlapalli@hotmail.com

Dear PCGAMESS users,
Actually there were pcgamess processes running in the background, which I didn't know. Once I killed all those processes, the disk space became available.
Thank you,
Prasad


On Wed Dec 5 '07, Prasad Yedlapalli wrote
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>Dear PCGAMESS users,
> I was running an hessian job with the following command:
> ./pcgamess -f -i 3214h1h_freq.inp -o 3214h1h_freq1205.out -ex /750GB/pyedlap/pcgathlon &

>It created some 50 intermediate files named MOINTS. Afterwards, I killed the job using kill -9 command. I changed some input options and I restarted the job with the following command:
> ./pcgamess -f -i 3214h1h_freq.inp -o 3214h1h_freq1205.out -ex /750GB/pyedlap/pcgathlon &

> Then I killed the job and there was only one MOINTS file. I just wanted to make sure enough hard drive space was there. I used the df command to verify storage space. Following is the partial output:
>      /dev/hdc1            732549636 103808692 628740944  15% /750GB  (1K-blocks)
>  The size of MOINTS is only 1343312.
> -rw-rw-r--    1 pyedlap  pyedlap   1343312 Dec  5 10:13 MOINTS
>
> Now I have the following situation:
>   I don't see any of the old MOINTS files ( 50 in number). They just disappeared. I used  ls -a command.  Still, my hard drive is 15% full. It used to be 1% full. Would you please suggest how to remove the unseen MOINTS files to recover the hard drive space?
>
> Thank you very much for your help,
> Prasad

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