diff --git a/egs/librispeech/s5/local/chain/tuning/run_tdnn_1b.sh b/egs/librispeech/s5/local/chain/tuning/run_tdnn_1b.sh
index 8546955c93c..cd26773f50f 100755
--- a/egs/librispeech/s5/local/chain/tuning/run_tdnn_1b.sh
+++ b/egs/librispeech/s5/local/chain/tuning/run_tdnn_1b.sh
@@ -173,8 +173,6 @@ if [ $stage -le 15 ]; then
      /export/b0{5,6,7,8}/$USER/kaldi-data/egs/librispeech-$(date +'%m_%d_%H_%M')/s5c/$dir/egs/storage $dir/egs/storage
   fi
 
-  touch $dir/egs/.nodelete # keep egs around when that run dies.
-
   steps/nnet3/chain/train.py --stage $train_stage \
     --cmd "$decode_cmd" \
     --feat.online-ivector-dir $train_ivector_dir \