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Home Directories

Baskin Engineering provides home directories for each user. User home directory quotas are based on the type of user account and are documented below:

Type	Quota
Faculty	60 GB
Adjunct Faculty	40 GB
Emeritus Faculty	60 GB
Lecturer	40 GB
Researcher	8 GB
Grad	8 GB
Undergrad	2 GB
Guest	1 GB

Home directory quotas cannot be increased. If you have more data than can fit in your home directory, you need a projects disk.

Projects Disks

Projects disks are available for research needs by request and per storage availability.

UPDATE: As of July 1, 2022:

• Research project disks will no longer be subject to recharge fees
• Requests for new project disks will be paused until a new file system infrastructure becomes available in 2022-2023 (please send requests for exceptions to arossi@ucsc.edu)

Accessing Home Directories and/or Projects Disks

Home directories are made available on all supported Linux/UNIX servers via NFS and can also be accessed over CIFS (Windows File Sharing).

CIFS access to home directories is available on the campus network but requires use of the UCSC VPN service in order to use it from off-campus.

Note that if your Baskin Enginering account credentials are not accepted by the CIFS servers, you may need to update your password at the Account Management. You can reuse your current password. Going through the password change process makes sure that your password is set correctly in all of our systems.

Linux/UNIX (Supported Systems)

On Baskin Engineering supported Linux and UNIX servers, you can access your home directory using the following command:

cd ~

You can access projects disks using the following command:

cd /projects/<project name>

Where <project name> is the name assigned to your projects disk. Note that home directories and projects disks are mounted automatically when you first try to access them. If you use the mount command, you will not see your projects disk mounted until you attempt to access one or more files in the projects disk.