More space needed

[Hanzhang X]

I trained my data on a Dice machine, and there was an error saying “Disk quota exceeded”. I guess I am not allowed to have much disk space. But I only trained 800 sentences (I will need 2000 sentences in total). Is it possible to have more space?

Thanks!

[Simon]

yes, of course – but I can’t do this

use the Informatics support form to request more space (say that you are my student)

[Andrew W]

I’ve had issues here too – when you request for more disk quota, it might be useful to ask for it to be fixed rather than dynamic quota.

If it’s dynamic your fixed quota remains as it was and only increases by 1gb every hour if you’re near your limit – it checks this every hour. As I was already at my quota of 20gb (and asked for ~50gb) it was running out and failing during dnn training when it was dynamic. If the same happens to you, ask for the maximum fixed quota so it won’t fill up during training.

[Hanzhang X]

Thanks!

[Manisha V]

Hi,

Reviving this thread because I have the same issue (see attached). I’ve tried the rm command to clear my trash. In my ss folder, I have 1 copy of my Arctic A (wav and txt) and 1 copy of unprocessed corpus (7mil sentences, in txt). I think they are the largest files there…Should I cut down the corpus to half (it’s 860mb) but I don’t know if that will make sufficient disk space?

I’m using a PPLS computer – is there any form I have to submit to ask for more disk space (like with the informatics suggestion above).

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[Simon]

You shouldn’t need that much space to do the assignment. It’s likely that you have a large amount of unnecessary files somewhere. Check disk usage like this:

cd
du -sh *
du -sh .?*

cd changes to your home directory. The first du measures the size of all regular files and directories. The second uses a glob .?* that matches all the hidden items (anything whose name starts with a period) including the directory .cache.

It should be safe to delete the contents of .cache, if that is the offending directory, or you can delete just some of the subdirectories if you prefer.

[Manisha V]

Thanks!

I tried that and rm -rf ~/.cache seems to have cleared cache in the end.

[Kelly C]

Following up on this–I was trying to copy a file from one directory to another and got this error:

cp: failed to close ‘ss_arctic_ab_kc_v1/utts.data’: Disk quota exceeded

I’ve tried removing some of the subdirectories in .cache and it says I’ve cleared out about a gigabyte, but I’m still getting the same error. Is there anything I’m missing?

I’m wondering if it has anything to do with the 'abrt-cli status' timed out message I get every time I open the terminal, which didn’t start showing up until I tried to ssh into the PPLS machines from my own laptop.

Thanks!

[Simon]

Check your quota like this:

$ quota --hum

If the figure in the space column is larger than the quota (which is generally 5000 MB = 5 GB) then you need to remove files.

Use the du command mentioned earlier in this topic to find what is taking up the most space.

(The abrt-cli status warning is probably also caused by full quota.)

If you are making many voices for the Speech Synthesis assignment, in separate copies of the ss directory, you can share files between them where applicable (e.g., the wav directory for voices that use the same database). See https://speech.zone/forums/topic/symbolic-links/ (if that looks tricky, do it with a tutor in a lab session).

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