The LINCKS database system can grow quite large. The reason for this is that no objects are overwritten, but rather new versions of objects are created with the appropriate changes. However, some of the space used by the database can be reclaimed using cutoff. The steps are:
mkdir Archive
) and copy all the database files
*.dat
, *.mol
, *.names
, and index
into Archive.
cd ~/mydatabase; cutoff .
(.
is the current directory.)
Be warned that cutoff is not exactly speedy, so do not do this at such a time as the database might be needed.