User-store

/mnt/user-store/ is a common directory to store large files for any Toolserver user. Current disk usage can be seen with.

DO NOT store files in the root of /mnt/user-store/, always create directory for them.

Directories

 * 800px-thumbs-commons/
 * Users: dschwen (WikiMiniAtlas)
 * Purpose: The ./cache directory contains 120000 800px thumbnails from a selection of commons images (all featured pictures and quality images as of mid February, recent images, images from select contributors).
 * I'm using these to test content based image retrieval engines. To avoid downloading the thumbs all the time.


 * ars_usda_gov/
 * Users: multichill
 * Purpose: pictures Need more details???


 * contests
 * Users: unknown
 * Purpose: directories named event4–event19 (last changed between 2009 and 2013), containing subdirectories like "user208", containing images. A repackage of POTY files?


 * dump/
 * Some dumps from http://dumps.wikimedia.org are stored here.


 * dumps/dbname/ (now empty)
 * Users: ???
 * Decompressed dump from http://download.wikimedia.org/ Please be careful when decompressing large files as you'll be doing it over NFS (All future dumps be kept in dumps/.)
 * When you create a file here (for instance downloading an archive or uncompressing it), remember to issue  on it so that all other users can move or delete it when needed.


 * dewiki_static/
 * Users: harddisk
 * Purpose: creating static dumps of wikis (experimental)


 * eol-jsc-nasa/
 * Users: multichill
 * Purpose: ISS photos Need more details???


 * git/
 * Users: everyone (updated by nemobis daily currently)
 * Purpose: checkout of master MediaWiki core + all extensions for read-only (search, git blame and so on) purposes by users or tools.


 * osm_hillshading/
 * Users: cmarqu
 * Purpose: Overlay map tiles in OpenStreetMap's directory format for hillshading


 * stats/
 * Users: schutz, emijrp
 * Purpose: Raw squid statistics data from http://mituzas.lt/wikistats/
 * No longer available as of 2013; some of them are on m:wikitech:Nova Resource:Tools/Help instead.


 * wiwosm/geojsongz
 * Users: ?
 * Purpose: Hosting a crazy amount of directories and files in the form.