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--- filer:scratchspace [2009/04/02 16:06] – damir
+++ filer:scratchspace [2023/10/09 15:08] (current) – admin
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 ====== Scratch Space ======
-Scratch space is a disk at your disposition, that you can use to store whatever file you want.
+Scratch space is a disk server that you can use to store whatever file you want.\\
-On scratch space, you can store any number of files of any dimension (compatibly with the overall disk space at disposition). No check will be performed to the files contained in this server, **and no backup of these files** will be performed either.
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-  * No check means that you can store any kind of files, of whatever dimension and nobody will bother you about this.
+On scratch space, you can store any number of files of any dimension (compatibly with the overall disk space at disposition). No checks will be performed to the files contained in this server, **and no backup of these files** will be performed either.
-  * No backup means that no security system to recover your files will be performed apart from the existing Raid 5 configuration of the disks. This in order to maintain low the level of work needed for administration.
+  * No check means that you can store any kind of files, of whatever dimension and nobody will bother you about this (unless there are disc space availability issues).
-  * **The System Administrator does not loose time to check/verify/recover file stored in this disk space, don't ask**.
+  * No backup means that no security system to recover your files will be performed. This in order to maintain low the level of work needed for administration.
+  * **The IT Administrator does not loose time to check/verify/recover file stored in this disk space, don't ask**.
-To access the scratch files all you have to do is connecting to the directory scratch on server **iscsrv14.epfl.ch** by using Linux, Os X or Windows and you can use the disk space here for your needs. Recall that even others users needs to use the scratch space, so be gentle when you store your files.\\
+To access the scratch files all you have to do is connecting to the directory scratch /scratch/<username> by using Linux and you can use the disk space for your needs. Recall that even others users needs to use the scratch space, so be gentle when you store your files.\\
-Currently the scratch space has around 1 TByte (1000 GBytes) for storage. A large amount of space just for crap files that one want to access but that aren't vital.
+Currently the scratch space has around 4 TByte for storage. It's a large amount of space just for files that one want to access but that aren't vital.
 ==== Access scratch space from Linux ====
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 ==== Access scratch space from Os X ====
-** click, click only procedure **\\
+  * Connect to smb://iscsrv30.epfl.ch and look for the **scratch-XXXX** shared disk.
-  * Browse the network connections from **Finder** and look for the **iscsrv5** server under My Network.
-  * Click on connect and insert your login/password.
-  * Select the **scratch-<your login>** disk and click **OK**
   * Start using the disk
-** shortcut **\\
-  * Focus the Finder
-  * Press the command/apple + k keys combination
-  * Write the **afp://arachne.epfl.ch/scratch-<your login>** address on the request window that appear
-  * Insert your unix login and password
-  * Start using the disk
-==== Access scratch space from Windows ====
-<note warning>
-You must ask for an account to your System Administrator in order to access the server from MS Windows
-</note>
-  * Browse the network connections from **Explorer** and look for the **melpomene** server inside the **LTHCI** network group.
-  * Click on the server icon and then on the **scratch** disk.
-  * Insert your login/password if requested.
-  * select your directory (the one with your username)
-  * start using the disk