Saint Mary's faculty, staff, and students are provided with personal network disk space. Faculty and staff have a quota of 150MB (150,000KB) of network disk space. Students have a quota of 50MB (50,000KB) of network disk space.

Your disk quota applies to all files in:

• Your H: drive on a networked PC
• Your network drive on a networked Mac
• Your mail folders if they were created on jade or with web mail

To check your current disk quota:
You can check your quota from a web page (Option 1) or by connecting to Jade (Option 2).

• Option 1: Visit the SMC Computer Account Management web page at http://www.saintmarys.edu/account and select "Check disk quota." Type in your login name and password and click on "Show Quota." Using this menthod will show you what percentage of your quota you have used (if it is less than 100%, you are under your quota, if it is more than 100%, you are over your quota).

  

• Option 2 (Option 2 provides more detailed information than Option 1): Connect to Jade; if you see a menu with an option to check your quota, use that option. If your menu doesn't have this option, choose the X option to exit to the UNIX shell. If you don't see a menu at all, you are already in the UNIX shell. At the UNIX prompt (either a $ or %), type: quota -v

  

• Filesystem: indicates the location of your files on the server
  
• Usage: the amount of disk space you are using (in Kilobytes)*
  
• Quota: the size of your disk quota (in Kilobytes)
  
• Limit: the difference between the limit and the quota is the size of your "cushion." You can be over your disk quota for a short time, but you cannot be over the limit without losing material.
  
• Timeleft: blank unless you are over quota; if over, it indicates the number of days you have to clean up your account before lose of data becomes likely
  
• Files: The number of files you have in your network filespace. We do not set a quota on the number of files you can have in your network filespace, so you can safely ignore the last three columns in the output.

If you are over your disk quota (50,000 KB for students; 150,000 KB for faculty and staff)**

Using your H: drive or network volume:

1. Log in to computer a computer and connect to your shared space on the network (the H: drive on a Windows computer, on a Macintosh it appears with your username).
2. Files and folders that are large should be the first place you should look for unnecssary items that can be deleted. Files that you no longer need can also be copied onto a floppy or Zip disk for archiving.

1. Connect to jade and get to the UNIX prompt (see above); type: du -s -k * | sort -n
2. The result shows all the files and folders at the top level of you network file space and the number of Kilobytes (KB) each uses. Files and folders that are large should be the first place you should look for unnecssary items that can be deleted.

• If your mail folder is large, try deleting old sent-mail messages and/or folders, if available, or other old messages that you no longer need. Be sure to empty the Trash if there is one!
• Look for mp3, other music/audio files, video/movie files (.avi, .mpeg, .mov), and image files (.psd, .gif, .jpg), as they are usually very large. Delete them or copy them to a Zip disk or CD. Do not make illegal music CDs with Saint Mary's College resources.
• All of the computers in the Trumper Computer Cluster (in the library basement) have both CD-RW and Zip drives. There are also CD-RW and Zip drives in the PCs in all Madeleva classrooms and the Macs in the Regina 145 classroom. The Macs in Moreau 324 has Zip drives, but no CD-RW drives. Instructions for burning CDs on these computers can be found on the Clusters web page at http://www.saintmarys.edu/~clusters
• You have 7 days to correct being over your quota. After that, the system will not let you create new files, new email, or edit old files (they will be become empty files if you try). If this happens, you will have to delete enough files to be under your quota before you can create new files, new email, or edit old files again.

• Students should complete a Student Computing Problem Report Form at http://fixit.saintmarys.edu/
• Faculty and staff can complete a Help Request Form at https://www.saintmarys.edu:8888/tracking/userform.html, e-mail the Helpdesk at helpdesk@saintmarys.edu, or call 284-4715.

* 1024 bytes = 1 Kilobyte (KB);
1024 KB = 1 Megabyte (MB) = 1,048,576 bytes;
1024 MB = 1 Gigabyte (GB) = 1,073,741,824 byes

** Quota limits can be increased if special arrangements are made with IT. Contact goldberg@saintmarys.edu