Accounts
Extra disk space
System Support can grant you extra disk quota, but your supervisor has to support your request
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This page was automatically migrated from the legacy Taggi site ( https://taggi.cse.unsw.edu.au/FAQ/Extra_disk_space/) and is pending review. Content, links and screenshots may be incomplete or incorrect.
- How much extra space you need
- What it's needed for
- How long it's needed for
Extra space in your home directory
Scratch space
Other places
Your UNSW home directory
/tmp and /var/tmp
- As the name suggests, they are for temporary, disposable data only.
- They are not backed up, and files in there may be deleted at any time, with no warning.
- They are a shared resource for all users, and a lot smaller than our file servers.
- You must delete your files there after you have finished using them.
- If they fill up, System Support will clean them out to make room for others to use.
/tmpis cleaned out every reboot/var/tmpis not (but files over a week old may be automatically deleted), and generally has more space available.- Because they're kept on local storage, they have very fast disk access, but are not shared across the network.