Michigan Tech IT has implemented a user scratch space system on all RHEL7 Linux Lab and faculty/staff/graduate student machines. When a user logs in, the system creates a local directory on the machine that is specific to the user.
Please note:
- The system is meant for temporary storage only.
- Do not fill up the disk.
- If the disk gets close to full, scratch files will get deleted based on age, starting with the oldest files first.
- The MAXIMUM time any files will exist in the scratch space is 30 days.
To use the temporary scratch space system:
- Log into any Linux Lab machine.
- Navigate to /scratch_30_day_tmp/USER_ID where USER_ID is your Michigan Tech username.
- Use the directory for TEMPORARY storage.
Remember that any files in the scratch directory are ONLY stored on the local computer and will not be backed-up. If the local machine has a hardware failure or is rebuilt, the scratch data will be unrecoverable.