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Check your home directory quota and usage

The quota -s command can be used to check your quota. space and files show what is actually used, while quota, limit and grace fields refer to the limits that have been set by the system administrator. For example, user abc123 below:

  • has used 'space' 18,800 MB (19GB), will receive a warning at 'quota' 81,920 MB and be unable to write to disk at 'limit' 82,944 MB .
  • has 72097 files and no limit set on number of files they can create

$ quota -s
Disk quotas for user abc123 (uid 412345): 
     Filesystem   space   quota   limit   grace   files   quota   limit   grace
storserv05:/mnt/nfs/software
                 18800M  81920M  82944M           72907       0       0        

Check your project quota and usage

The lfs quota -s command can be used to check your project's group quota. used and files show what is actually used, while quota, limit and grace fields refer to the limits that have been set by the system administrator. . For example, group1 below:

  • has used 13.74G, will receive a warning at 'quota' 1000G (1TB) and be unable to write to disk at 'limit' 1.074 TB.
  • has 68218 files and no limit set on number of files they can create

$ lfs quota -h -g group1
Disk quotas for grp group1 (gid 212121):
      Filesystem    used   quota   limit   grace   files   quota   limit   grace
       /nobackup  13.74G   1000G  1.074T       -   68218       0       0       -


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