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The solution is to tell the program to write its temporary files somewhere else, such as a directory in your Scratch area. Most programs have an option for this if you look at their documentation.
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Note that Home directories should not be used for temporary files, since they have 100 GB per-user quotas and can also fill up. |
If the program you're using doesn't seem to have an option to change the location of temporary files, you may be able to achieve the same effect by setting several environment variables that are commonly used. The exmple below creates a directory in the GSAF group's Scratch area.
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mkdir -p /stor/scratch/GSAF/tmp
chmod 777 /stor/scratch/GSAF/tmp
TMPDIR=/stor/scratch/GSAF/tmp
TMP=$TMPDIR
TEMP=$TMPDIR
export TMPDIR TMP TEMP |
You may also need to Contact Us to delete /tmp directory contents if you are not able to do so yourself (users can delete anything they write to /tmp).
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