Changing to using remove rather than clean in quota issue fix based on lab feedback.

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Matt Graham 2016-09-27 18:46:59 +01:00
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# Exceeded quota problems on DICE
Apologies to those who had issues with having insufficient quota space on DICE in the labs on Monday (26th September).
Apologies to those who had issues with having insufficient quota space on DICE in the labs on Monday (26th September).
This was caused by the [dynamic AFS quota system](http://computing.help.inf.ed.ac.uk/dynamic-afs-quotas) which only initially allocates users a subset of their maximum quota and then checks hourly to increase this quota as needed. Unfortunately the amount of disk space needed to store the temporary files used in installing the course dependencies exceeded the current dynamic quota for some people. This meant when running the `conda install ...` command it exited with a quota exceeded error.
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```
source activate mlp
conda clean --all -y
conda remove -y numpy scipy matplotlib jupyter
conda install -y numpy scipy matplotlib jupyter
conda clean -t -y
```
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git checkout mlp2016-7/lab[...] # Checkout the branch for this week's lab
jupyter notebook # Launch the notebook server
```