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Hi Aleksandr,

You could try making a minimal container with reprozip
https://www.reprozip.org/

Only recon-all should be less than a Gb.

-Paul


On Wed, Apr 22, 2020 at 5:31 PM Hoopes, Andrew <ahoo...@mgh.harvard.edu>
wrote:

> I don’t have an exact number, but I believe the minimal compiled
> distribution is less than 2GB.
>
> Andrew
>
>
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> *From: *<freesurfer-boun...@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu> on behalf of Ерохин
> Александр <erohin_...@mail.ru>
> *Reply-To: *Ерохин Александр <erohin_...@mail.ru>, FS Help <
> freesurfer@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu>
> *Date: *Wednesday, April 22, 2020 at 12:35 PM
> *To: *FS Help <freesurfer@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu>
> *Subject: *Re: [Freesurfer] (no subject)
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> Hi Andrew,
>
>
>
> Alright, many thanks for the hint! I started experimenting myself with
> file exclusion, but is seems I've excluded too much and recon-all is not
> able to complete successfully anymore.
>
>
>
> Regarding this MINIMAL flag option — could you please tell an approximate
> distribution size with it is specified?
>
> Does it worth the trouble?
>
>
>
> Regards,
>
> Aleksandr.
>
>
>
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>
> Понедельник, 20 апреля 2020, 19:36 +03:00 от "Hoopes, Andrew" <
> ahoo...@mgh.harvard.edu>:
>
>
> Hi Aleksandr,
>
>
>
> Yes, this is an unfortunate limitation, but we are working towards making
> freesurfer more modular in the future. There’s no single straightforward
> solution to cutting down the distribution, but you do have a couple of
> options.
>
>
>
> The BIDS group has created a minimal FS6 docker container that removes a
> lot of unnecessary subject data for recon-all. Their dockerfile is
> available at
> https://github.com/BIDS-Apps/freesurfer/blob/master/Dockerfile and you
> can mimic that second wget command to download a filtered version of FS.
>
>
>
> Also, if you’re familiar with the development process, you can build your
> own freesurfer distribution following the instructions at
> https://surfer.nmr.mgh.harvard.edu/fswiki/BuildGuide. There is a cmake
> flag `MINIMAL` that will only build core recon-all components if it is set
> to ON. This is a more complete option than the first, but also much more
> time consuming…
>
>
>
> Hope that helps,
>
> Andrew Hoopes
>
>
>
> *From: *<freesurfer-boun...@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu> on behalf of Ерохин
> Александр <erohin_...@mail.ru>
> *Reply-To: *Ерохин Александр <erohin_...@mail.ru>, FS Help <
> freesurfer@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu>
> *Date: *Sunday, April 19, 2020 at 1:49 PM
> *To: *FS Help <freesurfer@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu>
> *Subject: *[Freesurfer] (no subject)
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> Hello together,
>
>
>
> The FreeSurfer distribution takes * 10G* of the disk space in my local
> installation. It has numerous tools, but it’s not modular, or at lest it’s
> very hard to tell boundaries between modules.
>
>
>
> E.g. /bin folder contains around 860 executables all in one place.
>
>
>
> Is it possible to trim down the distribution provided to minimize the size
> but keep it functional in terms of computation for *recon-all* steps?
>
> For example trim away all GUI executables and support libraries.
>
>
>
> As far as I can see, the directories taking most of the space are:
>
>
>
> 2.2G    *./subjects*
> 3.1G    *./average*
> 2.5G    *./bin*
> 1.3G    *./lib*
>
>
>
> But I am not sure what could be removed and what not in order to keep all
> recon-all steps functional.
>
>
>
> Many thanks,
>
> Aleksandr.
>
>
>
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