Cleanup of Kestrel Scratch Directories

March 16, 2026

Though there are no quotas in scratch directories, please be mindful of your usage and remember to clean up your scratch directories manually until automated purging is re-enabled, especially if you have large files or many small files. 

Finding large files may be made easy with an lfs find command. For example, "lfs find /scratch/myusername/ -type f -size +1G" will return any files 1GB or larger. A negative sign can also be used to search for files of up to the specified size, which can be helpful for finding particularly small files (e.g. "-size -5k" to find files up to 5 kilobytes.)