added section on user directory

SammyAgrawal commented 2 months ago

Would love feedback / editing @jbusecke

Specifically, if there are other recommended ways for people to clean their user directory that I didn't mention.

SammyAgrawal commented 2 months ago

I myself was shocked that I had 10GB of cached/ old hidden junk in my directory!

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jbusecke commented 2 months ago

Hi @SammyAgrawal, this is a good start, but I think that we really should change the language to very concrete actionable steps. I suggest moving the language about why we have a quota to the User Directory Reference, and here add a very concrete step by step list (put yourself in a confused users role, and go through everything from A to Z that they have to do):

How do I find out how much data I have and where? du -h --max_depth=1 .
What takes up so much space? It will be data files? (I personally do not like the github recommendation, because that will just be code, which is what the User Directory is explicitly for). -> Provide example on how to simply move files to a cloud bucket. Additionally link to our Data Guide and our Data Policy for further reference.

Happy to dig into the wording for this after the changes have been made.

jbusecke commented 2 months ago

I myself was shocked that I had 10GB of cached/ old hidden junk in my directory!

How exactly did you diagnose those?

SammyAgrawal commented 2 months ago

I found out using the du -h --max_depth=2 . command, so you're right that definitely should be included

jbusecke commented 2 months ago

This is great @SammyAgrawal . Thanks for the edits. Ill merge this now.

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added section on user directory #161