Disk quota exceeded by custom coadds

I have been trying to create some custom coadds on DP1 and everything was going well until I got a “Disk quota exceeded” which is clearly because all the intermediate information and the products are being saved to the home directory… I have two questions:

  1. is there a better directory where to store this kind of work, or is this a real limitation and I should work this somewhere else?
  2. is a documentation somewhere about what files could be deleted after the process, and retain only the processed coadd?

thanks

For large temporary space allocations, you should use the directory specified in the environment variable $SCRATCH_DIR; this is a user-specific directory on a filesystem that is not quotaed, but will be purged every Sunday morning.

The tutorials will be updated to reflect this usage.

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