/scratch and /local

If you need temporary storage space, please make use of the /scratch and /local directories.

You can make a directory and plop whatever it is that you need in these directories. However, we *strongly* emphasize the word temporary for this space, as we do not back it up, and it usually gets wiped out every summer.

The /local directories are specific to each lab machine, whereas /scratch should be accessible from any lab machine.

Here's a simple example of using /local:

POPPY[~]$ cd /local
POPPY[local]$ mkdir username
POPPY[local]$ cd username
POPPY[username]$ mv ~/largefile .
				

related links

• disk quotas