The standard resources are provided when the account is created, and remain until its termination. Temporary storage provides storage for infrequent, short-term needs. Bulk storage is available to accomodate the need for long-term storage of large amounts of data. When new accounts are created for faculty, staff and students on the Uniform Access computers, each account is given a basic allocation of connect time per day, cpu time per day, and disk space. The standard resources meet the needs of many people, but occasionally you may need more.
Faculty can request that students in a class temporarily be given extra resources.
In such cases the resource allocations to the student's accounts will revert back to their original levels once the class is over. For those times when you temporarily need more storage than provided by your standard resources, you can check out temporary disk space for one or more days by using the chkout command. If space is available, chkout will create a temporary directory in which you can download and sort tapes, provide space for large outputs or database runs, or whatever. Remember that this is temporary storage, and will disappear after your 'chkout' reservation has expired. For more information on the chkout utility, see the man page for chkout .