Our install partition has limited size. So the idea is not to get rid of anything, but rather move these big data files somewhere else with much larger disk quota. I guess I could move the whole subject away. As long as SUBJECTS_DIR is set correctly, it should look at the right place when needed. However, can the same method applied to other big directories, e.g. average, lib? I don't see any corresponding environment variables.

Please advice.

On Tue, Mar 5, 2013 at 4:54 PM, Nick Schmansky <nicks@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu> wrote:

DJ,

Agreed that the distribution has gotten bloated. In future releases I'd
like to change it to not include most of the data and to have recon-all
or other utilities print a 'wget' command to use to download the data
when needed.

I've updated the ReleaseNotes section with a list of some directories of
stuff that is not used in the default stream. So deletion depends on
whether you or your local user-base will ever need these, which can be
tough to predict:

* freesurfer/average/mult-comp-cor - Correction for Multiple
Comparisons pre-calc - 1.3G
* freesurfer/subjects/fsaverage? - fsaverage at other iso-levels -
310M
* freesurfer/subjects/fsaverage_sym - symmetric fsaverage for
contra-lateral surface mapping - 197M
* freesurfer/subjects/cvs_avg* - CVS Combined Volume and Surface
registration target - 531M
* freesurfer/trctrain - Tracula training set - 886M

These files in total are about 3GB.

https://surfer.nmr.mgh.harvard.edu/fswiki/ReleaseNotes

Nick

On Tue, 2013-03-05 at 13:43 -0600, Dian Jiao wrote:
> Hi,
>
>
> I was trying to install Freesurfer on a HPC cluster. It seems to be a
> pretty large distribution, ~4.3 GB after unpacking. I wonder if all
> the subfolders are needed for running freesurfer or is there any
> folders could be skipped. Thanks in advance.
>
>
> DJ

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