Data Storage

Your VSC account comes with certain amount of data storage capacity in at least three subdirectories on each VSC cluster. Please check the following sections to familiarise yourself with the characteristics of each storage system and how to manage your data in them.

• Storage locations
  • Home directory
  • Data directory
  • Scratch space
• Managing storage usage
  • File system quota
  • Total space used on file systems with quota
  • Space used by individual directories
• Request more storage
  • Increase inode quota
  • Increase personal storage
  • Increase storage in virtual organizations
  • Increase tier-1 project quota