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System Access System Access What to do if I am over disk quota? Login [Modified Wednesday, Dec 10th 2014 by claude] You need to delete some files. You will only be able to access your account remotely through SSH. At that point, you will be able to verify your disk usage using the "quota" command on any of our Linux System OR through the following web page: ENCS User Quota Check If you see the word "expired" in the output, it means that you are over your allocated disk quota and your account will remain blocked until you return below quota. NOTE: The command "bigfiles", on any of our Linux System, will list the 20 largest files in your account, in decreasing order. If you have problems using SSH or deleting files, come to our HelpDesk for assistance. Professors and Staff are assigned 30GB of basic disk space. Students are assigned 1 GB of basic disk space distributed over their home directories: Windows home (drive G), Unix home (drive U) and Web home (drive W). This limit cannot be increased. Thesis students are entitled to an additional 500 MB located in the Thesis space (drive T). If additional disk space is needed, graduate students should go through their supervisor. Detailed information about quota and network drives