You find here solutions for problems with exceeded quota on the HOME and WORK file system.
Check
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your quota
Check the your quota limits on HLRN with the command hlrnquota. Once your account is a member of a unix UNIX group, you find quota informations additionally for all groups. Each of your files belongs to your account or to one of your unix UNIX groups.
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blogin4> hlrnquota
Home
Blocks used Soft limit Hard limit Inodes used Soft limit Hard limit
myaccount (users) 89.45 GiB 40 GiB 100 GiB 187.3 k - -
prj00012 (projects) 68.03 GiB 40 GiB 100 GiB 659.6 k - -
Work
Blocks used Soft limit Hard limit Inodes used Soft limit Hard limit
myaccount (users) 1.202 TiB 3 TiB 30 TiB 1.74 k 250 k 1.5 M
prj00012 (projects) 2.512 TiB 12 TiB 30 TiB 1 1 M 6 M
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- on HOME and WORK with respect to the unix UNIX groups
- on PERM with respect to the user account.
Quota on HOME and WORK
For each stored file on the file systems HOME and WORK the unix UNIX group of this file controls the attribution of to the quota to this unix UNIX group. For quota, the directory of a file (/scratch/usr/${USER} or /scratch/projects/<projectID>) does not matter.
Each user account is a member in a number of unix one or more UNIX groups. You can check the list of unix your membership in UNIX groups with the command groups.
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Once you decide to set the unix UNIX group to prj00012 for a file, the used quota for the unix UNIX group prj00012 includes this file size.
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blogin4> chgrp --recursive prj00012 somedirectory blogin4> ls -ld somedirectory drwx------ 1 myaccount prj00012 4096 Jul 3 2020 somedirectory |
HOME quota exceeded
You have the following solutions if your HOME quota is exceeded.
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General hints to solve quota issues
As described in File Systems the default quota limits are reasonable for average use cases.
For projects requiring higher quota limits we kindly ask you to contact your consultant to discuss your needs and how we can help you.
HOME quota exceeded
The HOME file system (HOME=/home/${USER}) is intended to be used for the following data.:
- configuration files
- source code and executables
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- large files
- parallel input/output for your jobs
If your HOME quota is exceeded, we recommend
- to check whether you can either delete files or move files from HOME to WORK (no backup!) or to PERM
- to contact your consultant, explain your storage needs, and ask for a higher quota limits.
WORK quota exceeded
You have the following solutions if The WORK file system (/scratch) is intended to be used for the following data:
- large files
- parallel input/output for your jobs
If your WORK quota is exceeded.
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, we recommend
- to check whether you can delete files or move files from WORK to PERM
- to change
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- the UNIX group for files to "move" the attribution to the quota from your account to a
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- UNIX group (e.g.
prj00012)
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- to contact your consultant, explain your storage needs, and ask for a higher quota
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The WORK file system (/scratch) is intended to be used for the following data.
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- limits.