Requesting More Disk Space For Your Home Directory
19 May 2006
NFS vs. AFS
SLAC currently supports two types of network-visible disk space to users: NFS and AFS. AFS is the new-and-improved type of disk space and all new requests for user disk space are filled with this type. If your $home directory is currently in the NFS
system, you are strongly urged to move to AFS! You must have an AFS account before you can use this type of disk space (use the movetoafs command to set this up if you do not already have one). Please see the online AFS User's Guide for additional details.
SCS has made a policy decision to NOT increase the amount of NFS disk space for user home directories. Therefore, if your home directory is in NFS and you run out of space, your only recourse is to move to AFS.
Requesting Additional Disk Space
If you think you need additional AFS disk space, please take a look around your existing space to see if something can be erased. If you wish to archive some files to make additional free space,
contact Charlotte Hee for tape archive advice. If you
still feel you need additional home disk space, please review the SCCS Policy on Unix Disk Space. Additional disk space requests may be made using the
afs request form. You may be asked to justify your request. Other questions may be directed to unix-admin@slac.stanford.edu.
Information on scratch disk space may be found here.
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