Running WPS in external disk - ungrib error

[Ociredef]

Hello everybody,

As written in the title, I was trying to run WRF & WPS in an external disk of my laptop. Everything was fine until I had to run "ungrib.exe", which returned me the following error:

"At line 147 of file output.f90 (unit = 13)
Fortran runtime error: Cannot open file '/../../../../../media/federico/Data/AgroSoc/ungribfiles/PFILE:2021-07-31_18': Invalid argument

Error termination. Backtrace:
#0 0x7f51db4fed21 in ???
#1 0x7f51db4ff869 in ???
#2 0x7f51db50054f in ???
#3 0x7f51db73f9d6 in ???
#4 0x7f51db73fccc in ???
#5 0x560dd55d41cf in ???
#6 0x560dd55d2ac1 in ???
#7 0x560dd55d3112 in ???
#8 0x7f51db1a90b2 in ???
#9 0x560dd55cc7dd in ???
#10 0xffffffffffffffff in ???"

Following the suggestion contained in this topic: https://forum.mmm.ucar.edu/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=32&t=9550, I ran ungrib in my home directory and everything turned fine again. The problem is that I don't have enough space in my home disk and I would like to run WRF in the external one. Is there any suggestion to bypass that bug?

Thank you,
Federico

 

[yairsuari]

Not really an answer, but I think this might be due to encoding of the external disk filesystem hence the question marks.
Are there any special characters?
maybe you have annother external just to test?

 

[Ociredef]

Well, thank you because you gave me the input to find the issue. I formatted an external disk and tried different file systems. The only that finally worked was the Linux partition one. Thank you again.

Federico