Lintula

Home directory and quota

This page contains information about Lintula home directory and home directory size limit (called quota).

Lintula home directories are available on all Lintula workstations and ssh servers under directory called /home/<username>/. Home directory is automatically mounted when needed, which means ls /home command does not list all home directories.

By default home directory has 300 Megabyte size limit. This should be enough for students. When users quota is exceeded, a warning email is automatically sent to user. If you have exceeded your quota, you can't login to Lintula workstations. You can delete some files by logging on to kaarne.cs.tut.fi with ssh or to text mode on Linux workstations (with CTRL+ALT+F1)

For staff members quota can be expanded. If you need more quota, please send an email to administrators.

Backups

Home directories are automatically backed up every night. If you need some of your files restored, please send an email to administators and tell what files should be restored.

How to check the quota usage?

Users can check their home directory disk usage (quota) with vquota command on any Lintula computer. Here is an example:

talatalo@hopeatilhi ~ $ vquota
---------------------------------------------------------------
Disk space usage for your Lintula home directory
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Filesystem             size   used  avail capacity  Mounted on
kotinfs.cs.tut.fi:/koti/hakemistot/talatalo
                       300M    57M   243M    19%    /home/talatalo

For more information about Lintula home directory quotas, check 
http://www.cs.tut.fi/lintula/ohjeet/kotihakemisto.shtml

---------------------------------------------------------------
Disk space usage for your mailboxes at mail.cs.tut.fi
---------------------------------------------------------------
   Quota  % Used    Used Root
  200000       4    9895 archive.talatalo
  204800      36   74071 user.talatalo

For more information about Lintula mail quotas, check 
http://www.cs.tut.fi/lintula/ohjeet/email/mailquota.shtml
---------------------------------------------------------------
talatalo@hopeatilhi ~ $

First part of the output contains information about home directory disk quota. The column size tells the how much space the user have, the column used tells how much space the user has already used and the column avail tells how much space is still available.

check_home_dir.sh command can be used to find out files and directories which requires most space:

mustatilhi:~$ check_home_dir.sh 
0 .ICEauthority
...
34 .fonts.cache-1
37 .gconf
39 .kde
73 harj01.pdf
218 shar.01
238 GNUstep
377 .netscape
mustatilhi:~$