User Home Directories within the WAVE HPC have a maximum quota size of 50GB. Due to the large number of users of the HPC, we do not allow a user home directory to exceed this limit. Unfortunately, exhausting your quota can lead to issues logging into the HPC and/or running jobs in the HPC. As such, users are encouraged to proactively manage their local disk usage. If you find that your research requires more space than the allocated 50GB, please contact wavesupport about obtaining access to disk space in another appropriate file system.
Determining how much space currently in use
The quota command can be used to determine how much disk space you are currently using. The command normally reports usage in terms of the number of 1K size blocks. The '-s' option presents a more human readable format.
quota -s
Discovering where the space is being used
If you find that you are running low on disk space, the du (disk usage) command can be used to help find where the space is being consumed. Unfortunately, disk space is ofter consumed not just by the visible files and directories in your home directory, but also by hidden files and directories. The du command can be used to find both visible and hidden files/directories with the following commands.
# How much space in local files/directories?du -sh *
# How much space in local hidden files/directories?du -sh .[^.]*