Filestorage
From Support
Filestorage is where you can put your files and access them from anywhere in the world with WinSCP and Samba.
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Spoon
On Spoon, you get 1000 MB of general-purpose file-storage space in /home/username. You can use it store pretty much anything (as permitted by the AUP). You can use it to store your email, archive college work, play with shell-scripting etc.
Matrix
On Matrix, you get 400 MB of file-storage space in /home/username for your Webspace. There's more competition for space on Matrix, so try not to be wasteful.
Tmp
On both Spoon and Matrix there is 5GB /tmp, a place to put files temporarily. This space is shared between all users and is faster than your home directory. If it ever gets full, lots of stuff will break and people will get very angry. It is wiped at every reboot.
Unsupported
On Spoon there is also a 5GB /srv/unsupported. This is similar to /tmp, however its slower and isn't wiped at reboot. This is an experiment more than anything else, and if it's abused it will disappear.
Extra Quota
- Extra quota is only for course related data (i.e. almost all your quota is taken up by it)
- You must need it (e.g. can't just move to Spoon/Matrix)
- There must be enough free space
- You're expected to keep your usage as low as possible
- We will revoke the extra quota if, for example, we run low on space, or there is abuse
- Extra quotas are to be listed on the support wiki, with the reason for giving them, and reviewed at the start of each academic year
Extra quota is entirely at the discretion of the admins. Note we can only guarantee your fair share of disk space, extra quota is taking advantage of the unused quotas of other people.
| Username | System | Quota | Reason | Authorized by |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| symthrj | Matrix | 500MB soft, 505MB hard | Course websites | bbrazil 11:56, 7 February 2006 (GMT) |
| paul | Spoon | 2GB hard | Nightly cron job needs a lot of temporary space | bbrazil 12:55, 28 March 2006 (IST) |
Note
Netsoc do not provide backups to users. It is your responsibility to backup any important data that you might have on Spoon or Matrix.
