Andrew File System (AFS)

Official documentation: https://cern.service-now.com/service-portal?id=kb_article&n=KB0002863

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Introduction

The AFS (Andrew File System) Service provides networked file storage for CERN users, in particular home directories, work spaces and project spaces.

The AFS Service is based on OpenAFS, an open-source distributed filesystem which provides a client-server architecture for location-independent, scalable, and secure file sharing.

Install with locmap

$ locmap --enable afs
$ locmap --configure afs

Access AFS

$ ls /afs/cern.ch

All CERN registered users get an AFS home folder, that is indeed your $HOME folder in interactive systems such as lxplus.

An example for user dabadaba:

$ /afs/cern.ch/user/d/dabadaba/