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Warning!

Puhti and Mahti are being decommissioned in stages, and their storage areas will become fully unavailable from 15 October 2026. Clean up unnecessary files and move any data you need to keep by 31 August 2026. See the Roihu data migration guide for instructions on transferring your data to Roihu.

Puhti scratch is very full: keep only active data there and move or delete everything else. No new Puhti scratch quota will be granted.

What are volumes? How do I use them?

Volumes are virtual block devices exported from a central storage backend to virtual machines. A volume can be attached to one virtual machine at a time. These volumes can be further used to provide different storage options, such as NFS through a virtual machine running an NFS server.

To know how to use volumes on Pouta, see Persistent volumes.