Disk QUOTA exceeded
Whenever you login, by default, the quota of your locker is checked (and
any other lockers that are attached to which you have *write* permission),
to verify that you (or the lockers) are safely under quota.
If you are over your disk quota, you may see three popup dialog
windows with complicated-looking error messages. Unfortunately, these
error messages are not useful in an of themselves, but they indicate
that some programs are not able to write files that they'd like to
because there is no free space.
If this message appears during login:
95% of the disk quota on /mit/lockername has been used.
it indicates that locker is in danger of reaching its limit of disk space.
You can check your own quota by typing:
quota -v
at your prompt. That will return something like:
Disk quotas for jruser (uid 4863):
Filesystem usage quota limit files quota limit
/mit/jruser 481848 500000 500000
96% of the disk quota on /mit/jruser has been used.
Here is what some of the columns mean:
usage -- how much space you are using in Kilobytes (Kb)
files -- how many files you can have (not usually used in AFS)
quota/limit -- the maximum amount of space alloted
(Note: In NFS, quota and limit were used to indicate "soft limit" and
"hard limit", respectively. However, there are no soft limits in AFS, and
both entries report the same information.)
You can also check the quota of other filesystems to which you have
*write* permission by typing:
attach lockername
quota -v -f /mit/lockername
Upon login, or when using the 'quota' command, a warning message is
displayed whenever the examined locker reaches or exceeds 90% capacity.
Once the limit of a locker has been reached, no more files may be created.
Changes made to a file which would exceed the quota by more than one
megabyte are discarded. (Changes smaller than this are preserved.) At
this point, any unnecessary files should be removed, or steps should be
taken to compress data, in order to fall beneath the hard limit again.
DO NOT IGNORE THE WARNING MESSAGE. If you do, you risk not being able to
save important information or files.
For information on how to remain below your quota please refer to the
answer "How to get BELOW QUOTA" under the "ACCOUNTS" topic.
Last updated: $Date: 2005/03/09 22:03:01 $
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