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[06] WHAT IS A DISK QUOTA? WHAT ARE THE DISK QUOTA POLICIES ON SDF?
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When you create an account on this system, you immediately have an
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allocation of 20 megabytes and about 500 inodes (or number of files)
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for your home directory, located in the /udd filesystem. You also
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have a 20 megabyte allocation in /mail, /www and /ftp (for gopher).
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Please note that the exception being /mail, which has a limited inode
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allocation of 5. When you get a message stating you have EXCEEDED YOUR
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QUOTA this means that you either have more than 20 megabytes in your
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home directory or more than 500 files.
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If you are going to need more disk space for a more elaborate home
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page, a lot of email or just room for archiving, you can obtain a
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150 megabyte quota (5000 files) for each of the four file systems
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by becoming an ARPA member. Type 'arpa' at the shell.
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If you still need more inodes and space you can join the MetaARPA
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membership which will automatically triple the total number of files
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you may have, per file system (15000 inodes) and give you an additional
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50 megabyte quota (200 MB per filesystem). Type 'meta' at the shell.
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Furthermore, you can custom tailor your disk quota by typing
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'tweak' at the shell. The TWEAK membership is designed for people
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who need get the most out of SDF's disk resources. This membership
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allows you to use your standard disk allocation as a 'chunk' from
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which you can assign specific amounts to each of the four filesystems.
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For instance, if you want more space allocated for /mail than for
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your /www, you could run tweak to allocate 250mb for /mail and 50mb
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for /www, 50mb for home and 50mb for /ftp (gopher).
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GRACE PERIODS - HOW LONG CAN I REMAIN OVER QUOTA?
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A grace period is the number of days your disk use may be over its
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limits. In this version of NetBSD this feature DOES NOT WORK. Please
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note that this is stated in the setquota(8) man page. If you view
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your quota settings with the 'quota' command you will notice 'none'
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under grace if you have exceeded your disk quota. Ideally SDF would
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like to limit this period to 5-10 days. Remember, you are sharing a
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system with tens of thousands of other people, please be responsible.
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Most applications will exit or report an error if you exceed your
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disk quota. Ignorance of your current quota, quota settings or blatant
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disregard of 'EXCEEDED QUOTA' messages is no excuse. You CAN and WILL
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lose data if you have exceeded your disk quota and do not take
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immediate action. As per the SDF user agreement, SDF can not be held
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responsible for any data loss you may incur. If you are going to use
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our disks with a close to or maxed out quota, it is highly recommend
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that you run the 'quota' command often or put it in your .profile so
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you will be aware of the situation.
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