If you have an account on Gran Sasso's unix machines (riscgs1/rsgs02/rsgs04)
and you have files sitting in its file system, you want to read this note
as you risk of losing *some* of them. If you use this account only for
reading e-mail or have not "expanded" to other file systems except the
login one, you have nothing to be afraid of.
About a week ago I received an e-mail from Andrea Donati (sys manager
of rsgs02 at Gran Sasso) regarding the disk space situation. Andrea
stated that he intends to free up many disks that are currently occupied mostly
by MACRO people in order to re-distribute the disks to other groups at GS.
File systems that WILL NOT be touched are /macrousr and /macrowww.
Also, file systems that belong to the MACRO-US group WILL NOT be touched,
i.e. /macrous1 /macrous2 /macrous3 and /macrous4.
If you have files in any other disk, then it risks deletion. According
to Andrea, they plan to BACKUP everything and clean it up immediately
after on Thursday, June 5th 1997. MACRO-US people can move their files
to any of the /macrous1 /macrous2 /macrous3 or /macrous4 area.
Please notice that the above 4 partitions are meant primarily for MACRO
monitoring purposes; so, don't just copy all your stuff them.
I've asked Andrea to wait until June 10th 1997 in order to allow more
time to the users to manange their files; there's also a remote
possibility that we might be able to get a new disk from the US in the
meanwhile.
--Erik