Quotas at CSUSM

Check how much space you are using

Each student gets:

• 20 MB of space on the /home file system (that's the one that houses your e-mail, etc.)
  • Computer Science majors (by default) get 30 MB of space in the /home file system because they need more room to store the programs they write for classes.
• 5 MB of space on the /public file system (that's the one that contains your personal web pages, graphics, etc.)
  • Arts majors (by default) get 20 MB of space in the /public file system because they need more space to store multi-media projects for their classes.
• 50 MB of space on the H:\ drive (this is where your windows files are stored when you log onto a Windows machine on campus)

Each Staff/Faculty member gets:

• Currently, there is no quota for Faculty/Staff on the UNIX machines.
• Faculty/Staff have an H:\ drive quota of 100 MB.

Guests/Alumni get:

• 2MB of space on the /home file system (see above) -- guests /home files system is resident on owl.csusm.edu
• 2MB of space on the /public file system (see above)

Note: Quotas are raised for one reason: You need more space for academic projects. When you email us please include what projects you need the extra space for and how much space you'd like.

• Who to Mail with Questions and Comments
  • UNIX & Windows accounts (H:\ drive) -- (quotaadmin@csusm.edu). This is for quota questions regarding your e-mail account, web pages, and student/staff/faculty files.

General Size & Background Information

Quotas are enforced on file systems. Users may access file systems that are not actually on the computer they have a login on. So, your mail files are really not on san_marcos, but these files are made available to san_marcos users via the UNIX file system for mail. The web server works the same way; you can modify your web page even though you may not directly log onto the web server. The reason I'm going on about this is that you must log onto the computer that actually hosts the file system whose quota information you want to access. Since you cannot log onto our web server you will not be able to use the quota command to see how near (or over) your quota you are. So if you use the quota command when you log in (to san_marcos) all you will see is your quota in the /home file system.

If you use the UNIX command quota to compare space used vs. space available to you. The output of typing this command would look something like:

Disk quotas for user login (uid 40769):

Since you cannot log onto the web server, directly, you may use the forms, above, to check your quota on that file system.

If you wanted to see just how much space each individual file or directory is using use the command du -ks * from your prompt. The output of this command would look something like:

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