Recently, a work colleague needed to transfer many large files to me for processing. We both had user accounts on the server on which the files resided, but based on the file system configuration, direct transfer via the usual strategy of move-the-files-to-a-shared-folder wasn’t feasible. While there was plenty of space on the partition mounted to /home, neither of us had privileges to create a mutually accessible directory in that space. We could both read from, and write to /tmp in the root partition, however, the total free disk space in that partition was smaller than most of the individual files.