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The following commands will allow you to monitor the amount of disk
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space you are using in your home directory on our (or another) submit node and to determine the
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amount of disk space you have been allotted (your quota).
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If you also have a `/staging` directory on the HTC system, see our
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[staging guide](file-avail-largedata.html#5-checking-your-quota-data-use-and-file-counts) for
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details on how to check your quota and usage.
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The default quota allotment on CHTC submit nodes is 20 GB with a hard
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limit of 30 GB (at which point you cannot write more files).\
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**Note: The CHTC submit nodes are not backed up, so you will want to
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space you are using in your home directory on the access point and to determine the
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amount of disk space you have been allotted (your quota).
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The default quota allotment in your `/home` directory is 20 GB with a hard
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limit of 30 GB (at which point you cannot write more files).
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**Note: The CHTC access points are not backed up, so you should
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copy completed jobs to a secure location as soon as a batch completes,
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and then delete them on the submit node in order to make room for future
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jobs.**If you need more disk space to run a single batch or concurrent
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batches of jobs, please contact us ([Get Help!](get-help.html)). We have multiple ways of dealing with large disk space
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requirements to make things easier for you.
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jobs.**Disk space provided is intended for *active* calculations only, not permanent storage.
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If you need more disk space to run a single batch or concurrent
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batches of jobs, please contact us ([Get Help!](get-help.html)). We have multiple ways of dealing with large disk space requirements to make things easier for you.
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If you wish to change your quotas, please see [Request a Quota Change](quota-request).
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**1. Checking Your User Quota and Usage**
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**1. Checking Your `/home` Quota and Usage**
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From any directory location within your home directory, type
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From any directory location within your `/home` directory, use the command
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`quota -vs`. See the example below:
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The output will list your total data usage under `blocks`, your soft
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The output will list your total data usage under `space`, your soft
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`quota`, and your hard `limit` at which point your jobs will no longer
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be allowed to save data. Each of the values given are in 1-kilobyte
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be allowed to save data. Each value is given in 1-kilobyte
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blocks, so you can divide each number by 1024 to get megabytes (MB), and
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again for gigabytes (GB). (It also lists information for ` files`, but
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we don\'t typically allocate disk space by file count.)
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again for gigabytes (GB). (It also lists information for number of `files`, but
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we don't typically allocate disk space in `/home` by file count.)
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**2. Checking Your `/staging` Quota and Usage**
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Users may have a `/staging` directory, meant for staging large files and data intended for
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job submission. See our [Managing Large Data in HTC Jobs](file-avail-largedata) guide for
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more information.
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To check your `/staging` quota, use the command `get_quotas /staging/username`.
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```
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[alice@submit]$ get_quotas /staging/alice
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Path Quota(GB) Items Disk_Usage(GB) Items_Usage
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/staging/alice 20 5 3.18969 5
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Your `/staging` directory has a disk and item quota. In the example above, the disk quota is
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20 GB, and the items quota is 5 items. The current usage is printed in the following columns;
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in the example, the user has used 3.19 GB and 5 items.
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To request a quota increase, [fill out our quota request form](quota-request).
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**2. Checking the Size of Directories and Contents**
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**3. Checking the Size of Directories and Contents**
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Move to the directory you\'d like to check and type `du` . After several
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moments (longer if you\'re directory contents are large), the command
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Move to the directory you'd like to check and type `du` . After several
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moments (longer if the contents of your directory are large), the command
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will add up the sizes of directory contents and output the total size of
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each contained directory in units of kilobytes with the total size of
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that directory listed last. See the example below:
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