Your disk quota is the total amount of disk space, in 512 character blocks, that you as a computer user are authorized to consume. Most commonly, a user's disk quota is consumed by e-mail files, but you need to be aware of other ways that disk space can be consumed . If you currently use or have used any of the other systems which reside on the Alpha cluster, there may be other files in your directory which are consuming disk space. Gene Sequence Analysis System, can all produce data and report files that reside in your directory. Disk space consumed by these files as well as e-mail files will count toward the consumption of your disk quota.
Subdirectories have the extension ' .DIR '.
Following are some helpful hints for managing disk space consumed by e-mail files. E-mail can be accessed on SLU's Alpha cluster with either the MAIL or PINE commands. MAIL is the default e-mail utility which is included as part of an Alpha's OpenVMS operating System. Following are some basic constructs of the MAIL utility and some suggestions for cleaning up your mail files. You should delete any messages that you do not want to keep.