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To meet the increasing demand  for more space on /scratch from our researchers and to reduce the number of 'forgotten' temporary files, NCI is introducing a new file management policy for the Gadi /scratch file system. This new policy will automatically clean up files older than 100 days and so create more space available to for research projects.

This policy change will facilitate greater fairness in the use of temporary scratch storage for all NCI projects.

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It is important to note that users must manage any files they own. A file in quarantine space can be identified and restored to active status by its owner only. It is not possible to implement a role-based (e.g. Lead CI) scratch file management utility at this time. Project Lead CI's should should ask all project members to manage their files.

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