[cfarm-users] cfarm104 access aka mac mini m1

[Zach van Rijn]

On Mon, 2024-08-12 at 13:31 -0500, Chris Jones wrote:
> hello zv 🌊,
> 
> hey heads up. the available space on the m1 is about maxed.
> i'll be the first to say that i am one of the primary
> offenders of the storage use with a home directory ~ 10gb,
> there's another user is using ~ 22gb. and on the partition
> that maps the `/Users` dir there's probably ~ 900MB of free
> space left.

Dear cfarm104 users,


Space is indeed tight on cfarm104's internal storage. This is,
unfortunately, a soldered component and cannot be upgraded.

Reminder to all: the 'STORAGE' symlink in your home points to a
decently fast external disk with plenty of space.

I cleared the Rosetta cache, which freed ~500MB.

Only two users (that I can see) have any kind of substantial
Homebrew cache, which total about 16GB.

Then there are home directories, here are users with >5GB/each:

(512K blocks)
47626208        hahnjo
23118656        ipatch
22434408        nikic
21810416        rth
18531424        egallager


> 
> doing a quick search on chatgpt it seems it may be possible to
> migrate the home directories to the external storage you've
> setup on there.

I wouldn't personally use ChatGPT as a "search engine", but yes
it is possible to automatically move user data files to external
storage. I don't think it is appropriate to do that yet though.

It's better to politely request everyone personally move (or
remove) their data. The reason is that internal storage should
be used (shared) because it is both present and fast.

> i've essentially migrated all my heavy files except my
> personal homebrew installation, which is something i do have
> planned, which is primarily the 10GB of space i'm currently
> using. thanks again for the access.

Thank you.

If necessary, I will start moving/deleting files, but I trust we
can get to a better state without resorting to such violence.


Z