How to stay within your disk quota How to stay within your disk quota When you get a warning that you have exceeded your disk quota, the first thing you should do is look around your directory for unneeded files you can delete. You can find out the size of each file using the 'ls -s' command.
Core files are useful for finding out what caused the program to fail, but little else.
They can be safely deleted. These are object files that you get when compiling C or Fortran programs. You can regenerate them by recompiling your programs, and so they can be safely deleted. Other files that you will not likely need are those ending with .lpt, or PostScript files generated by dvips. Many other programs create .PS files as well.