Body: <p>The file system I'm running on doesn't allow the creation of hard-links.  Cromwell is trying to create hard-links to directories, and when that fails, it's copying them.  Which is leading to disk quota errors.</p>
  <p>Is there a way that I can simply tell cromwell &quot;try soft links first&quot;?  Without creating a whole config file?</p>
  
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Comments.Text: Hi could you tell us what your disk quota is please?
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Comments.Text: @Michael 4.9 TB.  Which my pipeline fills up shortly before it's supposed to finish
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Comments.Text: It is possible to [set configuration values via the command line](https://cromwell.readthedocs.io/en/stable/Configuring/#configuration-via-command-line). I haven't tried this, though (and it will probably make you command pretty long...)
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Comments.Text: @DavyCats we broke down and created a config file.  Problem is that for some reason cromwell insists on creating "<dirname>.tmp" directories with complete copies of the working directory
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Title: How do I get cromwell to create soft-links?
ThreadText: # How do I get cromwell to create soft-links?
  
  (Asked by: username_0 on 2020-07-17)
  
  The file system I'm running on doesn't allow the creation of hard-links. Cromwell is trying to create hard-links to directories, and when that fails, it's copying them. Which is leading to disk quota errors.
  
  Is there a way that I can simply tell cromwell "try soft links first"? Without creating a whole config file?
  
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  > **Comments:**
  > **username_1**: Hi could you tell us what your disk quota is please?  
  > **username_0**: @Michael 4.9 TB.  Which my pipeline fills up shortly before it's supposed to finish  
  > **username_2**: It is possible to [set configuration values via the command line](https://cromwell.readthedocs.io/en/stable/Configuring/#configuration-via-command-line). I haven't tried this, though (and it will probably make you command pretty long...)  
  > **username_0**: @username_2 we broke down and created a config file.  Problem is that for some reason cromwell insists on creating "<dirname>.tmp" directories with complete copies of the working directory  
  
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