Disk Quota

Staff/PhD disk quotas

We apply disk quotas (limitats) for all Staff and Students’ home directories, in order to ensure the fair usage of our Fileservers resources from all users in EECS.
As of September 2018, after moving all staff/PhD to the new fileserver quotas are enabled as below.

How to check

In Linux, you can use the quota command to display your current quota usage:

[-bash-4.1]$ quota -s
Disk quotas for user jdoe123 (uid 012345):
     Filesystem   space   quota   limit   grace   files   quota   limit   grace
gouda:            4500M*  4000M    5000M   30      215k    0       0 
/export/user10

Here’s a quick explanation of these numbers:

• space*: Your home directory is currently 4,4GB big. The asterisk * next to it means that you are exceeding the allocated ‘soft limit’ for your user, which is explained next.
• quota:  This is the ‘soft limit’ for your user. If you have exceeded that limit, you must clear some files from your home directory before the ‘grace period’ expires.
• limit: This is the ‘hard limit’. If you exceed that limit, you will not be able to create any new files. This will lead to a situation where you will not be able to log into a Linux desktop.
• grace: The grace period, before the end of which you must clear some files from your home directory, if you have exceeded your ‘soft limit’.
• files: The number of the files in your home directory.

If you have exceeded the allocated disk space (indicated by the small asterisk), read the FAQ page on how you can find any big files/folders to help you clean them up.