I just created a new account yet it shows that Im already using diskspace?
When a user has been deleted from the system (terminated account), they may still have files owned by that old user’s UID. When a new account is created, the system assigns it the next availble UID, usually that of a terminated account. thus the new account assumes ownership of all files owned by that old userm giving the appearance that the user is already over quota without ever having uploaded anything. Also, tarballs (.tgz, .tar, .tar.gz) may have files owned by the user they were tarred up with on a seperate system, and when untarred on your server they are assigned ownership of whatever account has that UID. This is answered here.
