User and Data Storage

Home and User Storage

Each user has access to a home directory /home/<username> with a

NameLocationQuota
Home/home/<username>100Gb
Old Home/home/<username>.old100Gb
User Storage/storage/<username>10Tb

The used and available quota can be inspected from a terminal window with the following command:

df -h | grep demo
Filesystem                                               Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
192.168.100.8:/export/vd_storage_4_a/users/demo          100G   15G   86G  15% /home/demo
192.168.100.8:/export/vd_storage_4_a/storagefs/demo       10T  178M   10T   1% /storage/demo

where the username is demo.

Group Storage

Depending a the groups a user belongs to, there will one or more group storage locations under /storage. The main use case of the group storage is that users can easily share data or scripts.

Warning

Group storage is mounted with read and write permissions for all users. This means that any user can overwrite o delete any file. Store important information in each user’s private storage or in the data storage.

Data Storage

The data storage is a read-only location containing datasets.