Quotas and Dot Files

Every user is allotted an equitable share of our computing resources to ensure fair facility use and system stability. Users requiring additional resources should contact their advisor about their needs.

View your Quotas and account information online.

Disk
Every student given an account is given a disk quota (a limit on the amount of data you may save in your account.) Currently disk quotas are as follows: CSE graduate students are allotted 5 Gigabytes of user space and undergraduates and graduate students from other departments get 2.5 Gigabytes.

Each user is assigned a soft limit and a hard limit of disk space. The soft limit is whatever your disk quota is and the hard limit is a little above that. When a user creates a file that exceeds the soft limit, the system will issue the warning: No space left on device. The user can create files until the hard limit is reached. When the user creates a file that exceeds the hard limit, the system will again issue the same warning message and the file will not be saved. Failure to reduce disk usage within 7 days may result in an account being temporarily disabled. The user can create files again once he or she is below the hard limit.