CSHL 2015 Computational and Comparative Genomics

Class Project

transfer data from student's laptop to CSHL

Transferring data to class:

On student's laptop where the data exists, verify enough disk space for this operation:

$ cd # cd with no argument will go to HOME $ df -h . # verify disk space available in this directory == on this filesystem Filesystem Size Used Avail Capacity iused ifree %iused Mounted on /dev/disk1 233Gi 226Gi 6.1Gi 98% 59386162 1592652 97% /

1. looks like 6 Gb free ^^^^^

Go to the directory of data to transfer $ cd oentothera

Measure the amount of data to package:

$ du -hsc * 8.0K commandos linux 8.0K oenothera r.txt 8.0K oenothera r.txt~ 8.0K script oneothera.txt 8.0K script oneothera.txt~ 2.1G transcriptomes 2.1G total

Total data is 2.1 Gb, the tar image compression will help. Generate compressed tar image of this directory:

$ tar -cvzf $HOME/toCSHL.tgz ./

tar command arguments:

  c - create tar file
  v - verbose, show what is being packaged
  z - compress (gzip) while making tar image
  f - file name of tar image to construct
  ./ - package up everyting in this directory

Take a look at the resulting file:

$ cd # return to home directory where the result file is $ ls -l *.tgz -rw-rw-r-- 1 hclawson staff 770380941 Oct 29 22:26 toCSHL.tgz

It is now only 735 Mb of compressed data:

$ du -hsc *.tgz 735M toCSHL.tgz

Transfer this file to the workstation at CSHL

$ scp -p toCSHL.tgz hclawson@ecg15.cshl.edu:.

scp option '-p' means preserve date/time stamps on the file so it will appear identical in the copy.

Magic hand-waving here since there are various pathways through the networking here from wifi laptop connections to the class workstations. Talk with Dan for correct connection procedures.

Now, on the desktop machines for the class, in the home directory, unpack the tar image here: $ mkdir oentothera $ cd oentothera $ tar xvzf ../toCSHL.tgz $ ls -l total 80 -rw-r--r-- 1 hclawson staff 1090 Oct 29 21:46 commandos linux -rw-r--r-- 1 hclawson staff 4763 Oct 29 21:46 oenothera r.txt -rw-r--r-- 1 hclawson staff 4698 Oct 29 21:46 oenothera r.txt~ -rw-r--r-- 1 hclawson staff 2887 Oct 29 21:46 script oneothera.txt -rw-r--r-- 1 hclawson staff 1027 Oct 29 21:46 script oneothera.txt~ drwxr-xr-x 1 hclawson staff 330 Oct 29 21:47 transcriptomes