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What does quota exceeded mean? What do I do?

Each user account has a disk quota assigned to it (See "What are disk quotas?" in Accounts).

If you have discovered that you have exceeded your quota, you can use the 'find' command to locate large files that may be causing your quota to be exceeded.

To find all files greater than 5MB, you can use the following commands:

    bash$ find ~ -size +5000K | xargs ls -l
    (the ~ character tells the find command to start at the beginning of your home directory)

output :
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-rw-r--r--   1   nomar   grad   15085568   Jun 2 21:47   mydir/bigfile1
-rw-r--r--   1   nomar   grad   34084421   Jun 2 21:47   mydir/bigfile2
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This example shows that user 'nomar' has 2 large files under the 'mydir' directory. The fifth column shows the file size, in bytes. The first file is about 15 million bytes, or 15MB. The second file is about 34MB.

If not needed, you could remove these files with the 'rm' command (i.e. "rm mydir/bigfile1 mydir/bigfile2")

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