High Energy Physics

Disk management commands

Quotas

User areas are quotad (see the computing Wiki for more information).

How much disk space am I using?

• The du command shows the disk space used by given files/directories
• The quota command shows how much of your quota is used

How much disk space is free?

• The df command shows how much disk space is used/available

What's a core file?

• A core file is the memory image of a crashed program, often large
• If you are not going to debug the program delete it

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