# Puma Disk Quota

**URL:** <https://cms-helpdesk.ncas.ac.uk/t/puma-disk-quota/1109>\
**Category:** Rose/Cylc and FCM\
**Created:** [30 August 2023 09:11 UTC](https://cms-helpdesk.ncas.ac.uk/t/puma-disk-quota/1109 "2023-08-30T09:11:40Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 6\
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**Author:** ![hannahbryant](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b5a626/32.png) [@hannahbryant](https://cms-helpdesk.ncas.ac.uk/u/hannahbryant)\
**Post date:** [30 August 2023 09:11 UTC](https://cms-helpdesk.ncas.ac.uk/t/puma-disk-quota/1109/1 "2023-08-30T09:11:40Z")

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Hi,

I have been trying to run the job u-cz105, but it keeps getting ‘stopped with ‘running’’ and I think this is due to my disk quote on Puma. I have 12G, but running the job builds up the cylc-run directory very quickly and after 5 years it is taking up 5G on Puma alone. Is there a way to clean this directory as I run/ are there bits I can delete and not affect the run?

Thanks,  
Hannah

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**Author:** ![RosalynHatcher](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex013/user_avatar/cms-helpdesk.ncas.ac.uk/rosalynhatcher/32/11_2.png) [@RosalynHatcher](https://cms-helpdesk.ncas.ac.uk/u/RosalynHatcher)\
**Post date:** [30 August 2023 09:54 UTC](https://cms-helpdesk.ncas.ac.uk/t/puma-disk-quota/1109/2 "2023-08-30T09:54:20Z")

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Hi Hannah,

You have Extra Diagnostic Messages switched on so that is making the atmos\_main log files rather large. We only suggest switching this on for diagnosing problems, otherwise change it to Minimum or Normal output messages & warnings.

You can also delete old log files for cycles that have completed on PUMA under the cylc-run/u-cz105 directory. If you really do want to keep extra diagnostic messages on then I would suggest telling cylc not to pull back the job logs from ARCHER2 by adding in the `[[HPC]]` section of the `site/archer2.rc` file:

```auto
[[HPC]]
  ....
  [[[remote]]]
     ....
     retrieve job logs = False

```

Regards,  
Ros.

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**Author:** ![hannahbryant](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b5a626/32.png) [@hannahbryant](https://cms-helpdesk.ncas.ac.uk/u/hannahbryant)\
**Post date:** [30 August 2023 09:58 UTC](https://cms-helpdesk.ncas.ac.uk/t/puma-disk-quota/1109/3 "2023-08-30T09:58:26Z")

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Hi Ros,

Thank you! I had switched that on previously to find an error and must have missed switching it back off again.  
When deleting old log files, can I just check this is the files within log.20230828T170855Z labelled job-19900101T0000Z.tar.gz for example?

Thanks,  
Hannah

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**Author:** ![hannahbryant](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b5a626/32.png) [@hannahbryant](https://cms-helpdesk.ncas.ac.uk/u/hannahbryant)\
**Post date:** [30 August 2023 10:55 UTC](https://cms-helpdesk.ncas.ac.uk/t/puma-disk-quota/1109/4 "2023-08-30T10:55:42Z")

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Hi Ros,

Or is it the log files in cylc-run/u-cz105/log/job/19940101T0000Z for example?

Thanks,  
Hannah

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**Author:** ![RosalynHatcher](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex013/user_avatar/cms-helpdesk.ncas.ac.uk/rosalynhatcher/32/11_2.png) [@RosalynHatcher](https://cms-helpdesk.ncas.ac.uk/u/RosalynHatcher)\
**Post date:** [30 August 2023 13:53 UTC](https://cms-helpdesk.ncas.ac.uk/t/puma-disk-quota/1109/5 "2023-08-30T13:53:30Z")

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Hi Hannah,

Yes you can delete the ones labelled `19900101T0000Z.tar.gz` definitely.

Housekeeping tars/gzips up the `cylc-run/u-cz105/log/job/19940101T0000Z` regularly, I’m not sure if it will complain if the directory isn’t there or not without trying.

Regards,  
Ros.

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**Author:** ![RosalynHatcher](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex013/user_avatar/cms-helpdesk.ncas.ac.uk/rosalynhatcher/32/11_2.png) [@RosalynHatcher](https://cms-helpdesk.ncas.ac.uk/u/RosalynHatcher)\
**Post date:** [21 September 2023 09:14 UTC](https://cms-helpdesk.ncas.ac.uk/t/puma-disk-quota/1109/6 "2023-09-21T09:14:09Z")

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