How to access disk space on the ChemE file server

Each student in this module is assigned a temporary account (which gets wiped out at the end of the curent semester) on a "chefs", the CHemical Engineering File Server at MIT. chefs is a non-Athena file server running nfs. These account are provided for two reasons:
  1. to provide more disk space than is currently allocated for student accounts on Athena. Some of the projects in this module can generate very large files, so it is important to always monitor files sizes and to delete large files which you do not need.

  2. to facilitate the running of long jobs (e.g. greater than a few hrs) in background without locking up a workstation for long periods of time. Note: in previous years, students have had bad luck trying to bend the Athena Rules of Use to accomodate long-running jobs by locking up public workstations. If called upon to do so, Athena administrators are obligated to reboot workstations which are locked up.
Student accounts necessary to access this non-Athena disk are assigned using your Athena username. To access this disk space, from your Athena account, type:

attach -n -e chefs:/usr/teach/your_username
cd /chefs/usr/teach/your_username

This file server uses the NFS file system, rather than the AFS file system. Changing permissions is performed file by file using the chmod command.

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