Storage

/scratch and /home are connected to fast network storage, and oganised similarly as on BB2a.

Data in /home or /scratch is currently not backed up! Please move any valuable data and artefacts that need to be preserved/archived onto HCS when finished!

HCS

There are a number of ways to mount and access HCS shares as a regular user without needing elevated privileges;

  • There is an HCS automount path set up at /mnt/auto-hcs/. Though the /mnt/auto-hcs/ directory may appear to be empty, when you access /mnt/auto-hcs/<hcs_share> the specified share should get automatically mounted (with the privileges of your logged-in user).

If you are having trouble getting the share to appear, try issuing a kinit first, to re-issue an authorisation ticket.

For storage.hcs-chc or storage.hcs-wlg shares, use /mnt/auto-hcs-chc/ and /mnt/auto-hcs-wlg/ respectively instead.

  • With gvfs/fuse:

    gio mount smb://storage.hcs-p01.otago.ac.nz/<sharename>

    This will by default make the share available for your user at /run/user/<userid>/gvfs/smb-share:server=storage.hcs-p01.otago.ac.nz,share=<share_name>.

  • If you are accessing the server through a graphical user interface, generally the file manager should allow you to access SMB shares. For example, on an Xfce desktop: open File Manager, and in the location bar go to smb://storage.hcs-p01.otago.ac.nz/<share_name>. Select registered user, Enter your University credentials and domain registry if you have a staff account, or domain student for students.