[GRASS-user] temporary maps/space during r.fill.dir execution

[Markus Neteler]

On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 11:33 PM, Martin Landa <landa.martin at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> 2010/4/14 Markus Neteler <neteler at osgeo.org>:
>>> does anybody know how to avoid the temporary use of disk space during
>>> execution of r.fill.dir? For large input files it seems that large temporary
>>> files are written as well since I got messages like "no disk space left"
>>> (running in a minimized environment where not so much disk space is
>>> available).
>>
>> The command is actually memory demanding. What's the output of
>
> btw, is there any particular reason why data are kept in temp files
> and then written to raster maps?

It gives the advantage to not destroy in --overwrite mode an existing
map when the new attempt fails or was interrupted by the user.

Markus