Using temporary storage on local disk

Modern Athena workstations provide several GB of storage on local disk.
This can be used for short-term storage of large amounts of data.
Please note, however, that on cluster machines, or QuickStations, this
should be used for storing confidential data after you logout, since
another person could log in as the root user and access the data.

There are 2 locations for temporary storage:

/tmp	         Files in this directory are not guaranteed to last longer than
		 your login session.

/var/tmp	 Files in this directory should be available for
		 approximately two days.


This storage is provided as a convenience only - it is not backed up,
and we can make no guarantees about its security, but it is somewhat
more reliable than the "bitbucket" locker.

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