Disk Quotas Disk Quotas Disk space is a perpetual problem.
Nice users can run out of space because others use way too much disk.
Therefore we are imposing disk quotas on student homes and mailboxes. All system mailboxes must be less than 2 Mb. All student homes must use less than 20 Mb. Alumni homes are limited to 5 Mb. The following paragraphs are the explanation from the Solaris AnswerBook.