How much disk space am I using?¶
Total disk space used on file systems with quota¶
On file systems with quota enabled, you can check the amount of disk space that is available for you, and the amount of disk space that is in use by you.
On most systems, myquota
will show you for the $VSC_HOME
,
$VSC_DATA
and $VSC_SCRATCH
file systems either the
percentage of the available disk space you are using, or the
absolute amount. Users from Ghent university should check their disk usage
using the web application.
If quota have been set on the number of files you can create on a file system, those are listed as well.
Example:
$ myquota
file system $VSC_DATA
using 35G of 75G, 1126k of 10000k files
file system $VSC_HOME
using 2401M of 3072M, 40342 of 100k files
file system $VSC_SCRATCH
using 5.82G of 100G
Warning
If your file usage approaches the limits, jobs may crash unexpectedly.
Disk space used by individual directories¶
Warning
The du
command will stress the file system, and all file systems
are shared, so please use it wisely and sparingly.
The command to check the size of all subdirectories in the current
directory is du
:
$ du -h
4.0k ./.ssh
0 ./somedata/somesubdir
52.0k ./somedata
56.0k .
This shows you first the aggregated size of all subdirectories, and
finally the total size of the current directory “.
” (this includes
files stored in the current directory). The -h
option ensures
that sizes are displayed in human-readable form (kB, MB, GB), omitting
it will show sizes in bytes.
If the directory contains a deep hierarchy of subdirectories, you may not want to see the information at that depth; you could just ask for a summary of the current directory:
$ du -s
54864 .
If you want to see the size of any file or top level subdirectory in the current directory, you could use the following command:
du -s *
12 a.out
3564 core
4 mpd.hosts
51200 somedata
4 start.sh
4 test
Finally, if you don’t want to know the size of the data in your current directory, but in some other directory (e.g., your data directory), you just pass this directory as a parameter:
du -h -s $VSC_DATA/input_data/*
50M /data/leuven/300/vsc30001/input_data/somedata