Can't get new work due to HD size issue
13 Jun 2006 14:49:59 UTC
Topic 191372
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I am getting this message from several accounts saying that I need to clear HD space. I have a 120 GB HD w/ 94 GB free. My prefs are use max 20 GB w/ .1 GB left free for General and Home.
6/13/2006 7:36:06 AM|Einstein@Home|Sending scheduler request to http://einstein.phys.uwm.edu/EinsteinAtHome_cgi/cgi
6/13/2006 7:36:06 AM|Einstein@Home|Reason: To fetch work
6/13/2006 7:36:06 AM|Einstein@Home|Requesting 3456 seconds of new work
6/13/2006 7:36:11 AM|Einstein@Home|Scheduler request succeeded
6/13/2006 7:36:11 AM|Einstein@Home|Message from server: No work sent
6/13/2006 7:36:11 AM|Einstein@Home|Message from server: (there was work but you don't have enough disk space allocated)
6/13/2006 7:36:11 AM|Einstein@Home|Message from server: No disk space (YOU must free 1161.7 MB before BOINC gets space). Review preferences for maximum disk space used.
6/13/2006 7:36:11 AM|Einstein@Home|No work from project
Free your MIND, and the rest will follow!
Can't get new work due to HD size issue
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The BOINC folder contains more than 2.1GB, but you only allowed 1GB.
Michael
Team Linux Users Everywhere
RE: I have a 120 GB HD w/
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Please realise that BOINC can only use free space in the partition in which it is installed. Do you have 20 GB free in the BOINC partition? If not, your solution is to stop all crunching activity, uninstall BOINC, shift the entire remaining BOINC folder to a partition with more free space, reinstall BOINC making sure you tell the installer the correct new location during the install and then restart BOINC activities. Your work will recommence from where it was when you shut it down and nothing will be lost. Of course you can keep backups if you think you might make some mistake :).
If you weren't sure where Michael got that extra information from, please check out Bruce's scheduler logs thread. It's a "sticky" at the top of this forum. Very useful for seeing what the scheduling server thinks about any particular difficulty you might be having.
Cheers,
Cheers,
Gary.