#313 delete partial cgw checkpoints

[Matt MacManes]

I am accumulating a substantial number of checkpoint files - I know from reading here that I can delete old checkpoints - but what about checkpoints that correspond to partial stages.. For instance, could I safely delete

7-0-CGW/genome.ckp.51 (logical ckp05-1SM-partial)

after

7-0-CGW/genome.ckp.52 (logical ckp05-1SM-partial)

has been created?

Thanks, Matt

[Brian Walenz]

Yes. The partial just means the stage is still computing, but the way it computes allows for restarting from any checkpoint. I tend to keep at least two checkpoints around - the last one and the one before the current stage (ckp04 here) would be the most important.

Files in the tigStore follow the checkpoints, but you cannot delete those files.