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> Hey Michael, > > Just got back to work this morning after being away for several days and > the AWIPS data disk was full. I used a modified version of your > find command: > > find /awips2/edex/data/hdf5/ -type f -name "*h5" -mtime +30 -ls > > and found >27K files older than 30 days. Before I deleted them, I wanted to > verify it was OK to do so. See the full list in the attached file. > Hi Bob, HDF5 older than 30 are okay to delete in cases like this where the disk is full. I logged on to flurry and adjusted some of the purge rules to not keep around so many radar and satellite files and then restarted EDEX once again. I'll make some adjustments in the next release that should prevent this from happening again. -Michael Ticket Details =================== Ticket ID: PKL-603844 Department: Support AWIPS Priority: Normal Status: Open =================== NOTE: All email exchanges with Unidata User Support are recorded in the Unidata inquiry tracking system and then made publicly available through the web. If you do not want to have your interactions made available in this way, you must let us know in each email you send to us.