The CS Department provides scratch/volatile storage as an NFS mountpoint.

bigtemp is a large filesystem available from our Linux systems.

From a Linux server, bigtemp is accessible in the root directory /bigtemp. To store files in this filesystem, create a folder in /bigtemp with the same name as your computing ID.

abc1de@host:~$ cd /bigtemp
abc1de@host:/bigtemp$ mkdir abc1de
abc1de@host:/bigtemp$ cd abc1de
abc1de@host:/bigtemp/abc1de$ 

You will have ownership of the new directory that you have created. Use chmod to adjust the permissions on this new directory if desired (for example, if working in a group).

We also provide /bigtemp2, another volatile storage space.

Bigtemp is scratch/volatile storage space and is not long term storage. It is not backed up.

/bigtemp is available to mount via SAMBA. See here for more information

1. Since this is volatile storage meant for temporary usage, when storage gets low on this volume we will scan through and delete files with the oldest modification time
2. Each user is limited to 20TBs of scratch storage space
3. Files and directories that have not been modified or accessed in 150 days will be removed automatically without warning