1ws_release(1)               General Commands Manual              ws_release(1)
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NAME

6       ws_release - release a workspace directory and free the workspace name
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SYNOPSIS

10       ws_release [-h] [-F filesystem] NAME
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DESCRIPTION

14       Release  the  workspace  NAME  for the calling user.  This command will
15       make the workspace data unavailable to the user, and make  NAME  usable
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18       The idea of the workspace is to allow the administrator to keep control
19       of filespace in working filesystems, and to avoid the  situations  that
20       data  of past and finished projects/jobs is idling for ever on disks. A
21       user can create and dispose arbitrary number of  workspaces,  they  are
22       cheap, and can be created e.g. for each job.
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24       From  the system side, workspaces will be deleted after beeing expired.
25       A friendly user can release workspaces before the expiration date using
26       ws_release which will mark the workspace for deletion and make the data
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29       Deletion is probably a task done once a night and not immediately. Data
30       left  in  workspaces  after releasing them therefore still accounts for
31       disk quota if enabled by the administrator. If the  user  is  short  on
32       available  quota  it  makes sense to manually remove the content inside
33       the workspace directory using rm before releasing the workspace.
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35       If a workspace was forgotten and expired or released in error, it might
36       make  sense  to  contact the administrator, as he probaly can restore a
37       workspace for some time, if disk space is not low.
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OPTIONS

41       -h     display usage help text
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43       -F     select the filesystem to release the workspace  from,  there  is
44              always  a default for this.  See ws_list -l for a list of avail‐
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48              for root only: release a users workspace, with the id as seen in
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EXAMPLES

53       release a workspace:
54              ws_release myworkspace
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AUTHOR

58       Written by Holger Berger
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SEE ALSO

62       ws_allocate, ws_list, ws_find, ws_restore
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66USER COMMANDS                     March 2013                     ws_release(1)
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