Over the years, the use of symlinks and /g group shares became a de facto standard and recommended practice to workaround the limited storage capacity of the home folder in the EMBL cluster. While functional, these workarounds were unfriendly to beginners and suffered from intermittent problems associated with the overload and automatic cleaning procedures of shared drives and/or /scratch, Thanks to discussions and efforts following from a recent Bio-IT taskforce meetings, this quota has now been expanded to 50 GB.