Why is my home directory over quota?

Home directory quota is 40GB for everyone - that should be plenty of space for installing software.

Working data should not live in HOME. We suggest it is moved to /nobackup (ideally your project folder, i.e. /nobackup/proj/PROJECT_NAME), but be aware that NOBACKUP is, of course, only for copies data/code which is safely stored elsewhere (e.g. RDW, GitHub).

Completed completed/archived data sets should always be moved to storage elsewhere (such as to RDW) as soon as you are finished with them.

Still over quota after ensuring all of the above? Try running the command below to find out where all the space is being used:

$ cd $HOME
$ du -h -s .[^.]* ; du -h -s *

This runs 2 commands; the first summarises any hidden directories, the second does the same for non-hidden directories. The output will show you the size of each directory in your HOME, and you can then investigate which ones are using the bulk of your storage quota.

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