Accessing your Storage Allocation on the RDF-Active
Warning
You must be connected to the campus network or otherwise using the University's remote access service in order to connect to the RDF-Active.
The RDF-Active is accessible at the following path:
Your username will be in the form username@ic.ac.uk and you will need your standard Imperial password; please use the above links for more details for each operating system.
We recommend you read through Where are my files? for advice on how to browse the file system or otherwise discover how to connect to just the part of the file system that you need to.
Where are my files?
The RDF-Active uses a file system layout that corresponds to the organisational structure of Imperial’s faculties and departments:
Faculty/Department/Research Group/Storage Allocation/
- Faculty - this is represented as a shortname, you will find a list of these at the end of this page.
- Department - this will be the full department name in lower case, with spaces replaced with underscores.
- Research Group - this will be a shortname for the research group your storage allocation is contained in. It will typically be the username of the research group lead.
- Storage Allocation - this will be the shortname created for the storage allocation.
Example
Let's assume I'm a member of the Physics Department (in the Faculty of Natural Sciences) and I have a storage allocation called my_group_share which is owned by my research group called my_research_group. Based on the above described file system layout, my storage allocation would then be found at:
/fons/physics/my_research_group/my_group_share/
If you wanted to map to this path directly on Windows then you could then use
\\rdf-active.ic.ac.uk\research\fons\physics\my_research_group\my_group_share\
smb://rdf-active.ic.ac.uk/research/fons/physics/my_research_group/my_group_share/
Tip
The path to your storage allocation is visible on the RECAP portal under the Allocation Attributes. In that section, you will find an Attribute called Filesystem location which will have a path of the form:
/rdfactive/icl/faculty/department/research_group/storage_allocation/
Removing /rdfactive/icl/ from the filesystem location will give you the path to your storage allocation.
Faculty Shortnames
| Faculty Shortname | Faculty |
|---|---|
| buss | Business School |
| facility | Imperial-wide facilities |
| foe | Faculty of Engineering |
| fom | Faculty of Medicine |
| fons | Faculuty of Natural Sciences |