diff --git a/.gitlab-ci.yml b/.gitlab-ci.yml
index 970195accccd67586e7cf1fc822d9dada7064789..d9f1bfa58e3f1fc31eb9f4c8860d31ee5d24ae66 100644
--- a/.gitlab-ci.yml
+++ b/.gitlab-ci.yml
@@ -77,7 +77,6 @@ common:setup:
       uptime
       df -h
       mount
-      rm -rf /scratch/*
       find `realpath /scratch` -type f -print0 | du -s --files0-from=- | sort -n > /tmp/df
       head /tmp/df
       tail -n 1000 /tmp/df
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