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--- techstaff:quota [2016/04/22 16:13] – kauffman
+++ techstaff:quota [2019/09/13 10:37] (current) – kauffman
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 ^ limit | Hard limit works only when grace period is set. It specifies the absolute limit on the disk usage, which a quota user can't go beyond his hard limit. |
 ^ grace | The time limit before the soft limit is enforced. |
+===== Ok my quota is full. How do figure out what is using all the disk space =====
+The command ''%%du%%''. Move along.
+> "Ok but for real I don't have time to read the man page right now. I need to get my homework done!"
+<code>
+$ du -csh $HOME/* $HOME/.??* | sort -h | tail
+.0K    /home/user/.keras
+.0K    /home/user/.lesshst
+.0K    /home/user/.python_history
+.0K    /home/user/.compiz
+K    /home/user/.config
+M     /home/user/.gem
+M     /home/user/.cache
+M    /home/user/distro
+M    /home/user/.local
+M    total
+</code>
+^ du -csh | Calculate file and directory usage. (**c**) Show total ; (**s**) recurses down to calculate, but only shows total for input arguments(files or directories) ; (**h**) human readable file size; |
+^ $HOME/* | All files, no dot files |
+^ $HOME/.??* | All files that start with a dot(.) and have at least two characters |
+^ sort -h | sort the input by human readable file size |
+^ tail | Only show me the last 10 lines |
+===== Networked vs Local Storage =====
+If you are working with larger datasets we do not recommend you store these in your home directory. Please create yourself a folder in /local on whatever machine you have access to and put your data there.
+Generally, your home directory is not going to be great to use for any heavy read and write application.
+    $ mkdir /local/$USER