I'm using a Linux system on which I don't have root. My home directory is remote-mounted and backed up (and there's a quota on that filesystem). Now, I would like to work on some files on this machine itself, they don't need to be backed up, and I would like to (but not have to) have them relatively large.Where can I put these files? Where can I create a folder of my own outside my own home directory?Notes:Under /tmp is not a solution, the files need to persist.It's a Fedora 20, but if you have a Debian'ish answer that's interesting as well.The local filesystems don't have a quota.
Where can I/should I place files outside my home directory?
permissions;directory structure;not root user
You could use /var/tmp, but:If you have a quota, the admin will probably not appreciate you creating large files outside of your $HOME directory. Quite likely you even got a limit for /var/tmp. So that might just be an option for small files.However, if you are member of the fuse group (ask your admin to add you to the group if you're not), you can use sshfs and mount a remote file system of arbitrary size.Example:sshfs <user@host:directory> <mountpoint>