Emergency Maintenance: Research Data Storage Scratch Purge

OSC will be conducting an emergency scratch purge on our scratch storage today, starting at 3:00 PM due to low data pool capacity. 

Emergency Maintenance: Research Data Storage Scratch Purge

Category: 
filesystem
Resolution: 
Unresolved

  • Status: Scheduled

  • Service Affected: OSC Research Data Storage (/fs/scratch)

  • Date & Time: Starting at 3:00 PM on Wednesday, August 26, 2026

Description: OSC will be conducting an emergency scratch purge on our scratch storage today, starting at 3:00 PM due to low data pool capacity.

Please note that during this emergency run, we will purge data that has not been accessed for over 50 days (our standard purge policy is 60 days).

How you can help: We kindly ask all users to review their directories in /fs/scratch and manually remove any unneeded data to help us free up storage capacity.