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  DECS - Account Information - Disk Quota
Engineering students are allotted 200 megabytes of disk space and engineering faculty and staff are allotted a minimum of 1 gigabyte of disk space.
Its best to keep your disk usage under quota becase as you near or pass the quota, you may not be able to save files, and may encounter cases where your files can become corrupt.
'quota -v username' is another command you may use.
www.egr.msu.edu /decs/account/dquota.php   (512 words)

  
 Disk Quotas on UMnet-Managing Disk Quotas
Disk quotas have been placed on all UMnet accounts as a means to fairly distribute limited computing resources.
Once an account holder is notified that they have exceeded their "soft" quota, they are given a period of seven days to delete the necessary files to bring them back under their "soft" quota.
If after seven days, an account holder still exceeds their "soft" quota, their "soft" quota becomes their "hard" quota and the account holder will not be able to write anything to disk until they delete files which will bring them under their "soft" quota.
www.umaryland.edu /helpdesk/help/docs/disk_quotas.html   (474 words)

  
 Welcome to JustLinux: Wanna learn Linux?
Edquota allows you to specify limits on two aspects of disk storage: the number of inodes a user or a group of users may possess; and the number of disk blocks that may be allocated to a user or a group of users.
The idea behind quota is that users are forced to stay under their disk comsumption limit, taking away their ability to comsume unlimited disk space on a system.
Quota is handled on a per user or per group, per file system basis.
www.justlinux.com /nhf/Tools/Using_Quota.html   (648 words)

  
 JLAB Quotas
Disk Quotas are a means of limiting the amount of actual disk space used by a user or a group.
Without disk quotas one user or group would have the capability to utilize all physical disk space that is shared by everyone who has access to it.
You have exceeded 95% of your quota on the central fileservers.
cc.jlab.org /services/docs/disk_quota.html   (691 words)

  
 CSL: Understanding & Monitoring Your Disk Quota
If a disk fills up, no more data will be able to be saved, and people will lose work; for instance, someone who has been working with an editor may not be able to save their changes.
While providing increased performance and capacity, it does not currently support soft quotas; we are working on a solution to this, so users will be notifed before they reach their quota and are unable to write any further files.
There are two types of quotas that are set on home directories via the UNIX disk quota system: block quotas and file quotas.
www.cs.duke.edu /csl/faqs/quotas_about.php   (1003 words)

  
 Northern Storage Suite and Quota Server - Storage Resource Management & Disk Quota Management for Windows NT/2000 ...
Quota Server is where policies are set in the form of quotas and protocols established for users based on group, departmental or individual needs and business objectives.
When a quota is exceeded, an alert prompts the software for a specified response, which automatically prevents a user from exceeding their quota and generates instructions as to how the user can remedy this situation.
Quota Server is available as a standalone or as an integrated component of the Northern Storage Suite, a flexible, easy-to-manage solution that applies business principles to storage resource management.
www.pillar-solutions.com /p_quotaserver   (457 words)

  
 CSG, Disk space quota
There is a limit on the amount of disk space on the fileservers which students and staff are allowed to use.
This quota covers any files and sub-directories created in your home directory, which is your initial working space when you log in to any Linux system, and is the area known as the H: drive on Windows systems.
The disk space quota is considered adequate for most academic work and is unlikely to be extended unless there is a particular requirement for project work.
www.doc.ic.ac.uk /csg/all-OS/quota.html   (1105 words)

  
 Disk quota - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
A disk quota is a limit set by a system administrator that restricts certain aspects of file system usage on modern operating systems.
Disk quotas are typically implemented on a per-user or per-group basis.
Disk quotas are supported by most modern operating systems, including Unix-like systems (AIX, Linux), Microsoft Windows starting with Windows 2000, Novell NetWare, VMS, and others.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Disk_quota   (433 words)

  
 Home Directory Service: Disk Quotas
The first two fields, "Kbytes Used" and "Disk Quota" are the most important in determining your current usage and your total amount of space.
Disk quotas for user mst3k (uid 22590): Filesystem blocks quota limit grace files quota limit grace /lv2 0 10240 30720 0 10240 30720 /lv10 0 10240 30720 0 10240 30720 /lv8 8416 10240 30720 548 10240 30720
Say, for example, your quota is 15 MB and you are putting a 20 MB file in your home directory for a few minutes.
www.itc.virginia.edu /unixsys/homedir/quotas.html   (1189 words)

  
 ACN - How to Manage Unix Disk Space and Quotas
Disk space for user home directories is managed by assigning a "quota" to each account.
The output of the `quota' command does not tell you where the space is actually being used.
It is sometimes possible to arrange a temporary increase in your disk quota.
www.umanitoba.ca /campus/acn/support/disk.html   (1355 words)

  
 Project Mosaic - Additional User Disk Quota Policy
To obtain additional user disk quota a formal request shall be submitted to the system administrator using the on-line request form.
The duration for the additional disk quota for class projects shall be limited to the semester in which the course is taught.
The typical duration end date for additional user disk quota will be the last day of the final examinations of the semester based on the requested duration and justification.
www.coe.uncc.edu /mosaic/policy/Additional_Quota_Policy1.html   (955 words)

  
 TheCAT - Disk Quota   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
The amount of space you’re given is called your "disk quota." Disk quota is determined by the category of your account.
When the your disk usage reaches your working or soft limit, warnings are issued.
If you have a compelling need to increase your disk quota, it may be increased.
www.cat.pdx.edu /unix/disk-quota-2.html   (459 words)

  
 ONID
Disk quota refers to the amount of space available in your home directory.
A Soft quota refers to a limit that you can go over, but only for a limited amount of time.
In the case of Disk quota, if you have less than 1GB, everything is fine.
www.onid.orst.edu /docs/use/quotas.shtml   (159 words)

  
 Linux Quota Tutorial
This tutorial walks you through implementing disk quotas for both users and groups on Linux, using a virtual filesystem, which is a filesystem created from a disk file.
Since quotas work on a per-filesystem basis, this is a way to implement quotas on a sub-section, or even multiple subsections of your drive, without reformatting.
This tutorial also covers quotactl, or quota's C interface, by way of an example program that can store disk usage in a SQLite database for monitoring data usage over time.
souptonuts.sourceforge.net /quota_tutorial.html   (2822 words)

  
 Information Technology Services | Saint Louis University
Your disk quota is the total amount of disk space that you as a computer user are authorized to consume.
Most commonly, a user's disk quota is consumed by e-mail files, but you need to be aware of other ways that disk space can be consumed.
Disk space consumed by these files as well as e-mail files will count toward the consumption of your disk quota.
www.slu.edu /its/helpdesk/diskquota.html   (346 words)

  
 Disk Quota Management Software - Multiple Quota Limits
The fixed quota size is 50MB and your defined alarm limits are 80%, 90%, and 100%.
If a user goes over 80% of their disk quota alarm limit a popup is sent.
When they reach 100% of their disk quota limit you revoke their write access.
www.advtoolware.com /software/disk-quota/disk-quota-limits.asp   (201 words)

  
 MSCS: Disk Quotas (TN-116)
So a user who is over their hard quota, or who has exceeded their soft quota for more than seven days, will be unable to log in on a workstation console.
If a user feels that their disk quota is preventing them from doing legitimate MSCS course or research work, either the hard quota, or both the hard and soft quotas can easily be raised.
Requests to increase disk quotas should be sent by email to jobs@mcs.vuw.ac.nz to ensure that they do not get lost.
www.mcs.vuw.ac.nz /technical/TechNotes/tn116   (1173 words)

  
 CSS: Disk Quota and How to Manage It - College of Engineering, The University of Iowa
Quota is the amount of space you have to store your Unix and Windows files, which are stored in a single user account that can be seen from either type of computer.
The soft quota is the point at which you are warned that you are approaching your hard quota.
Disk quotas as of 1 January 2005 are:
www.engr.uiowa.edu /tools/etudes/disk_quota_usage.html   (753 words)

  
 ITCWeb: disk.quota.doc
Disk space quotas provide a means of monitoring a vital computing resource.
The amount of disk space depends on your affiliation with the University when the account was created.
Additional space is available in "wedges" of disk that can be leased in increments of 250 MB by individuals and/or by departments.
www.itc.virginia.edu /desktop/unix/docs/disk.quota.doc.html   (741 words)

  
 Windows 2000 Disk Quotas   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Quotas are volume based, which prevents you from applying them on a folder level.
If you implement soft quotas (which do not enforce quota limits) and want to keep track of the messages in the event logs, that generate informational event log entries (not warnings).
Some of the quota settings can be implemented via Group Policies, however customization (such as setting quotas to specific NTFS partitions or applying quota limits on user by user basis) have to be applied locally.
www.serverwatch.com /tutorials/article.php/1477191   (841 words)

  
 UB Central Copmuting Public Policies - User Disk Quota
Disk quota increase requests are handled by the CIT IT Accounts Office on an individual basis.
Disk quota may be increased for undergraduate students if it is required by a course and the request must be made by their instructor on the students' behalf.
Temporary disk space (/temp) can be used for storage of files which are needed for only a short period.
wings.buffalo.edu /computing/test-policies/disk-quota.html   (273 words)

  
 How to Manage Your Disk Quota: The Solutions
If your account is above or close to its disk quota limit, you will need to remove (delete) files until your account is below its disk quota limit.
The number in the left-most column indicates the size (amount of disk space used in Kilobytes [KB], which is roughly 1/1,000 of a Megabyte [MB]) of the file or folder.
After you identify folders that use a significant amount of disk space, you will need to remove (delete) files until your account is below its disk quota limit (e.g., the./pictures folder in the list above).
www.udel.edu /topics/e-mail/quota/managequota/solutions.html   (904 words)

  
 Quota Server 5.0 Lets Windows Put a Lid on Disk Overuse | Full Article | May 15, 2000
Quotas are added with the client program, but the administrator does not need to open the client program first.
Quota Server adds menu extensions to Microsoft Explorer--all I needed to do was right-click on the directory to which I wanted to add a quota and select the add/modify quota menu item.
I also was able to modify or override the default quota for individual users for whom the default quota was not appropriate.
www.networkcomputing.com /1109/1109sp3.html   (1074 words)

  
 HOW TO: Configure Disk Quotas for a Shared Disk in a Cluster
You should only use domain-level accounts when you assign the quotas, because local accounts would not be enforced when the disk fails over, which occurs because the other node would be unable to resolve the SID for the local account.
Disk quotas that you set on a partition apply only to that partition.
Disk quotas are based on uncompressed file sizes.
support.microsoft.com /?kbid=278365   (483 words)

  
 ISC Networking Mail Servers Disk Quotas
Users on ISC Networking mail servers (like dolphin.upenn.edu, pobox.upenn.edu, mail.med.upenn.edu) are given a disk quota which regulates the amount of disk space available to them in the user's home directory.
Each user is given disk space for the storage of the user's mail spool or Inbox where new mail messages are stored, other Mail folders, HTML documents and other personal files.
Any user who has more than 200 MB of disk space will get a warning message when they have less than 20 MB of disk space left otherwise a warning email message is sent to any user who is using 95% or more of their disk quota.
www.upenn.edu /computing/email/quotas.html   (239 words)

  
 CC - File Storage - Disk Quota
Because disk storage resources are limited, you have a disk quota which controls how much data can be stored on your account.
Your disk quota is assigned according to academic status.
If you find you are unable to store your work within your disk quota, you will need to fill out a form requesting additional disk space.
www.bu.edu /cc/support/filestorage/quota   (266 words)

  
 ISC Networking Help System - What is my inbox and disk quota?
A warning email message is sent to any user who has more than 200 MB of disk space and has only 20 MB left or to any user who is using 95% or more of his/her disk quota.
A user who receives a quota warning message should clean up their data by deleting old messages or delete files/mail folders from your home directory or you could move them to your personal workstation using FTP or your could compress very large files.
A user can view his or her own quota by typing quota from the MAIN MENU prompt or by typing /usr/local/bin/quota from the UNIX prompt.
www.upenn.edu /computing/email/help/Server/quota.html   (204 words)

  
 Quota Server - Disk Quota Management for Windows NT/2000 Environments
Quota Server can automatically detect new folders and new users, and apply quotas based on templates that are easily configured.
Quota Server delivers the most impressive reporting facilities allowing you provide disk usage summaries for administrators, managers and users and the Management Console can be used to quickly and easily create and maintain reports across the entire enterprise.
Quota Server has many useful features to ensure that managing disk quotas is quick and easy.
www.codework.com /quotaserver   (611 words)

  
 St. Olaf College | Computer Science | Activities | Lab | Disk Quotas
Your disk quota is a limit on the amount of file space you can use for your CS lab account.
If you exceed your disk quota, and do not correct the problem, you will soon find yourself unable to create new files and even unable to log in as usual.
If you exceed your disk quota and do not delete enough files to remedy the situation before the grace period expires (see checking your disk quota above), then Linux will prevent you from creating any more new files until you reduce your disk space usage.
www.stolaf.edu /depts/cs/activities/lab/quota.html   (1254 words)

  
 Disk Quota - Руководство реселлера H-Sphere - Positive Software Corporation
With disk quotas, users will pay recurrent fee for each MB of disk space they have reserved (not necessarily consumed!) by setting various kinds of disk quota, such as FTP, mailbox and db quota, unless they decide to stay with free quotas that they initially get on account registration.
On the 15th day, the disk quota cycle closes, user is refunded half of the recurrent fee ($5) and then is charged recurrent fee for the remaining 15 days: (15 days x (20MB quota - 10MB free) / 30 days) x $2 recurrent = $10, of which $5 will be taken from the refunded amount.
User's quota will stay at 7MB, but starting from the next billing period he will be charged $3 for his quota.
www.psoft.net /rus/HSdocumentation/reseller/disk_quota_old.html   (1094 words)

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