User Quotas

Every user on the cluster is limited in the amount of data they may store. The value that determines the amount of storage space is a user's quota. It is important for users to be aware of these values — the system will prevent all future writes as soon as the storage limit is reached or exceeded.

If your quota is reached during a running job, the job may be unable to write its final output to disk. Always check usage before submitting large jobs.

A user can run the showquota command to display file usage on the system:

$ showquota

Your current disk quotas are:
Disk                               Disk Usage      Limit   File Usage      Limit
/home/NetID                              121K        50G           42         5M
/scratch/user/NetID                     11.3K       200G            7        10M

Type 'showquota' to view these quotas again.

Quota summary

Directory	Storage limit	File count limit
`/home/$USER`	50 GB	5 million files
`/scratch/user/$USER`	200 GB	10 million files