The /users
filesystem is generally provided by our VAST filesystem. On Eiger is still provided by GPFS.
All home directories are backed up with VAST/GPFS snapshots and no cleaning policy is applied.
Users are NOT supposed to run jobs on this filesystem
Quota
The $HOME
environment variable points to the personal folder /users/<username>
: please, keep in mind that you cannot exceed the 50 GB - 500 K files quota enforced on $HOME
.
Expiration
All data will be deleted 3 months after the closure of the user account without further warning!