Editing Filesystem (section)

== Automount via AutoFS ==
Non-OS data directories (home, user_data, datasets, models, remote compute scratch) are mounted with AutoFS, which is an "on-demand" filesystem. This means that if you do not put a full path, the data directory will not mount and may appear to you as if nothing is there. For example, if you are on a compute note and run the following your output will return empty:
 ls -lah /data/user_data
You must put your full path of your user_data directory to be able to see the contents:
 ls -lah /data/user_data/<andrew_id>
The same logic applies to dataset, model, and remote scratch directories. Your home directory is also mounted the same way, but it is unlikely you will ever notice since it is mounted as soon as you login (Please notify admins if this does not happen). The surest way to reliably access data is to put the full path or cd into the directory in question.