I have not enough space available in my home directory, although the capacity of the file system is by no means a barrier for my storage. How I can get more space to complete the task?
CSC grants quotas to every user. You may query your quota status with the unix program
. In practice, problems related to low quota can be solved in a number of means, depending on the task you are doing.
Situation |
Creator |
Reader |
Solution |
Limitations |
disk intensive computation |
the user's application |
the user's application |
The shared network file system, $METAWRK |
total 600GB, user quota (e.g. 80 GB), 30 days |
archiving of user's files |
the user |
the user |
use the archive robot, $ARCHIVE |
TBytes, while a valid CSC user |
small temporary files |
the user |
the user |
/tmp may be used for small files of some hundreds of MB. Saving bigger files to /tmp risks the stability of the server. |
total 100GB, 1 day. Accessible only by the same machine. |
huge temporary files |
the user |
the user |
A new file system /mnt/work will be installed if necessary. |
No quota system will be used to stop user whose space consumption harms the others. Accessible only by the same machine. |
huge temporary files |
the user |
the user |
Try to use the home directory. If necessary, ask for more quota. |
You may not get any increase in the quota if you ask too much. |
sharing temporary files |
the user |
any number of users |
Try to use the home directory. If necessary, ask for more quota. Put the files into a directory whose name is difficult to quess. |
You may not get any increase in the quota if you ask too much. This is a very good, but not a fully secure way to share files. |
sharing big files in long-term research projects |
the group |
the group |
Ask for a unix group name. Then the group asks for quota big enough for the project. |
You may not get any increase in the quota if you ask too much. |
sharing big files in long-term research projects |
the project user |
the project user |
Start a project that buys computer resources from CSC. Then CSC allocates quota for the project. |
You may not get any more quota than what you pay for. |
ad hoc sharing big files between users in a group |
any user in a group |
any user in a group |
copy to $METAWRK, and apply chgrp and chmod commands to the files. |
You need the group id and you must be a member of the group also (see the groups command in Unix). |
ad hoc sharing big files between any users |
the user |
another user |
copy to $METAWRK, and apply chmod, giving permissions to others. Remove permissions as soon as possible. |
This is not a secure way to share files. |
moving new corpora to the language bank |
the user |
all the users |
the administrator provides a directory in /mnt/corpus/, giving its rights to the user. The user can provide the data, and the administrator can capture the files my changing their owner and permissions |
The user may not have writing permissions after the files have been captured by the superuser. Accessible only by the same machine. |
moving new corpora to the language bank |
the user |
the language bank users |
the administrator provides a directory in /mnt/corpus/, giving its rights to the user. The user can provide the data and set the permissions for the files so that the files are readable by the other users in the machine or in a unix group. RECOMMENDED |
No user quota. The administrator does not change permissions or ownership as long as updates are possible. Accessible only by the same machine. |
moving new corpora to the language bank |
the user |
the language bank users |
the administrator provides a directory in /mnt/kielipankki, giving its rights to the user. The user can provide the data and set the permissions for the files so that the files are readable by the other users in the machine or in a unix group. |
The administrator of the language bank cannot change the permissions of the files, without help of the file system super user. The filesystem is available only in certain machines at CSC. |
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