What are quotas?
Your quota is a limit of how much disk space you can use. You actually have two limits, a soft limit and a hard limit (I’m ignoring inode quotas here). The system will not let you exceed your hard limit. The system will let you exceed your soft limit, but will print warning messages. If you stay over your soft limit for more than 7 consecutive days, it will “expire”, and the system will enforce it as if it was a hard limit. If you need more disk quota, please send mail to help telling us why you need the extra space. Generally no reasonable request is refused. To find out how much quota you have and how much you are using, you can use the command quota -v. To find out how much space each thing in your account is using, use ls -as or du. • What happens if I use up my 7.0 days for quota? If your quota becomes “expired”, the system will enforce your soft limit as a hard limit. No files will be deleted, but you will not be able to create new files or extend existing ones. You need to fix t
