How to use day or scavenge partitions for a job

Q&A
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I am trying to run a shell script but I am receiving this error:

sbatch: error: Jobs shorter than 24 hours cannot be submitted to the week partition.
sbatch: error: Please use the day or scavenge partitions for these jobs.
sbatch: error: Batch job submission failed: Unspecified error

How do I switch to using the day or scavenge partitions for the job?

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Hi April,

It looks like you might have already figured this out, but to submit to different partitions you can use the -p or --partition option for sbatch:

sbatch -p day my_script.sh

You can also include that in your batch script as part of the #SBATCH header:

#SBATCH --partition day