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- ascratch - the OLD scratch filesystem, located at the path: /net/ascratch/people/<login name>/
- afscra - the NEW scratch filesystem, located at the path: /net/afscra/people/<login name>/
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- Ensure you don't have any running or queued jobs on the cluster.
- Use On the login node, use the "hpc-scratch afscra" command on the login node to switch to the new scratch space.
- Shut down any working processes (screen, tmux, etc.), and log out from the machine.
- Log on to the system, issue execute the "hpc-scratch" command, and make sure that the output says that you are using SCRATCH with a path starting with /net/afscra/
all done! You are set to use the new scratch space. From now on, the $SCRATCH environment variable points to the new location, and Slurm will create job-specific temporary directories in the new $SCRATCH space.
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