Quotas

Disk and Email Inbox Quotas on Socrates

Quotas are enforced by actually having two size limits: a "soft" limit and a "hard" limit. You can use the command "quota -v" to display your current quota allocation.

Below is a result of user vanilla executing the command. The amount stated for /var/mail is the size for your email inbox, and the other amount under /user1 is the size of the home directory. The numbers under usage, quota and limit are expressed in kilobytes.

socrates% quota -v
Disk quotas for vanilla (uid 34381):
Filesystem     usage  quota  limit    timeleft  files  quota  limit    timeleft
/user1          9164  50000  55000               1628      0      0            
/user2             0  50000  55000                  0      0      0            
/user3             0  50000  55000                  0      0      0            
/pop_tmp           0 100000 100000                  0      0      0            
/user9             0  50000  55000                  0      0      0            
/user4             0  50000  55000                  0      0      0            
/user5             0  50000  55000                  0      0      0            
/user6             0  50000  55000                  0      0      0            
/user7             0  50000  55000                  0      0      0            
/tmp_mount         0 200000 205000                  0      0      0            
/user8             0  50000  55000                  0      0      0            
/user10            0  50000  55000                  0      0      0            
/shr/tmp           0 1000000 1500000                0      0      0            
/var/mail       4928  30000  35000                  0      0      0            
/var/tmp           0 400000 405000                  0      0      0         

If you exceed your soft quota limit you will be warned at login. You should use this opportunity to remove some files. You will have 7 days to reduce your disk usage after the first notification. After 7 days, you will not be able to create or add new files until your disk blocks have been reduced below your soft limit size. At anytime, if you exceed your hard quota limit, the system will not allow more disk blocks to be written until you remove some other disk blocks.

Increasing your Disk Quota:

Users who need additional disk space are required to submit a Change to Computing Account form which is available from Accounts Service Desk. You can reach them by telephone at: 642-7355. You can find an online version of the form at: http://uas.berkeley.edu:7355/forms

For accounts sponsored by the Academic Computing Resources program, students must have this form signed by their faculty advisor, and faculty must have this form signed by their departmental Faculty Computing Coordinator; for departmental or personal accounts, this form must be signed by the individual with funding authorization. You may contact Accounts Service Desk for a list of coordinators in each department.

Please send comments to: calweb_consult@berkeley.edu. For additional questions, see Questions.
Last updated 19 December 2007.