Introduction Brief Procedure Step by Step Procedure Disclaimer Introduction The section will guide you on how to check your disk usage. Brief Procedure If you wish to check the status of your disk usage you must first log into the server. Once connected enter the command "whereismydiskusage". Step by Step Procedure Explanatory comments are written in italics. In most cases, text in [brackets] represents input which varies with needs of the user, text in "quotes" represent menu items, icon choices or something needing to be typed exactly as shown and bold text represents the expected computer prompt or resultant response. Log into the server using the instructions in How To Log Into Your Server Account. At the command prompt enter "whereismydiskusage" like the one shown below. {green.eng.utoledo.edu:101}whereismydiskusage This should produce something like: (the output will be different depending on the files and directories that you have in your account) 05/11/99-13:52:55 Disk Usage: /home/top/jsmith Kbytes File/Dir ------ -------- 1      .OWdefaults 4      .Xauthority 1      .Xdefaults 1      .desksetdefaults 8      .desktophost 216    .dt 1      .fm 6      .fullcircle 1      .fxplugmgr.cache 1772   .netscape 0      .new 1      .newplan 0      .ocenterinit 2      .openwin-init The first field indicates the disk space(in kilobytes) occupied by a particular file or folder(indicated by the second field). Disclaimer Storage (disk) allocation (quota) and usage is calculated for ALL files owned by an account in the entire home directory filesystem (/home on our server). The command `quota -v` calculates the usage of all files in the home directory filesystem for the account running the command. The command `whereismydiskusage` calculates the usage of all files in the home directory ($HOME) of an account. The command `whereismydiskusage` only lists the space consumption of each file and directory at the base of your home directory.If you need further detail for subdirectories, see documentation for the unix du command Unix Man Page The calculation of disk usage for the two commands 'quota -v' and 'whereismydiskusage' WILL NOT MATCH if an account owns files in a directory other than their own home directory. Therefore, it is possible that the results of `quota -v` and `whereismydiskusage` will not match. User sspade allows others to write in his home directory (by setting the permissions on his $HOME directory to be writable by other users) and user jblow placed some of his files under ~sspade/. jblow's `quota -v` would be higher than his `whereismydiskusage` because files he owns exist outside of ~jblow (but still inside of the home filesystem). sspades's `whereismydiskusage` would be higher than `quota -v` because `whereismydiskusage` would count jblow`s files and `quota -v` would not.