[daip] Question about the availble volume in hard disk

[Eric Greisen]

Cheng-Yu Kuo wrote:
>           To whom it may concern:
> 
>         My name is Chengyu Kuo, a graduate student at UVa astronomy 
> department.
> I have a strange problem in AIPS: My external hard disk have a space of ~300 
> GB
> for AIPS data. However, whenever the used disk space in AIPS exceed ~16% or 
> 17% of the
> total volume, AIPS functions in a strange way. I can no longer copy tables 
> within or
> to other datasets, or when I use FITLD to read in new datasets,  AIPS would 
> seems
> keep running, but the data is not actually read in (I checked this by typing 
> "free", and I
> can see that the disk space used is not increasing).
> 
>         Since I just installed the new external hard disk relatively 
> recently (less than
> two months), I am wondering whether I set any wrong, or there might be lots 
> of hidden
> files that may occupy the rest of space?? (I am working on a VLBA project, 
> and I have
> several ~ 9GB datasets. I would guess some of the scratch files would be 
> big).

What operating system are you using and what type of file system do you 
have on the external disk drive?

Eric Greisen