A 40MB disk storage quota has been set on staff and faculty home
directories residing on CCS administered computer systems (for
example, Phoenix and the e-mail servers).  Disk storage is a shared
resource, and is not unlimited.  Extravagant or accidental use by a
few could result in unacceptable limitations for others.  Establishing
a disk storage quota enables us to monitor disk usage and anticipate
future disk space requirements.

Justifiable disk quota increases will not be unreasonably denied.
People who now exceed the 40MB limit have been given a temporary
higher quota.  They will be asked to review their storage needs and
will be urged to delete, compress, or otherwise economize their use of
disk space.

To display your disk quota, enter the command:

        quota                   (from Phoenix)

or

        quota -v                (from the e-mail servers)

You'll see something like this:

           Filesystem blocks quota limit files quota limit
       /home/sta/...  1165   40960 40960 173   10240 10240

or

        Filesystem  usage  quota limit  timeleft files   quota limit  timeleft
        /home/sta    1165  40960 40960             173   10240 10240

The "blocks" or "usage" columns indicate the amount of space used, the
"quota" columns list the maximum space available to your account.  The
numbers are in kilobyte units, dividing by 1024 gives the megabyte
equivalent.  In this example, about 1.14MB (1165/1024) of the 40MB
(40960/1024) quota has been used.

Please direct any questions regarding ways to reduce your current disk
usage to the CCS Help Desk, e-mail [log in to unmask] or call extension
55800.

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Marshal Linfoot                            Phone: (416) 736-5257 x22691
Manager, UNIX Technical Support            FAX:   (416) 736-5701
CCS, York University                       E-mail: [log in to unmask]