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uquota is an UPPMAX tool to determine how much storage space is left in all projects.

See the help file:

uquota --help
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Your output will be similar to this:

[sven@rackham1 ~]$ uquota --help
usage: uquota [-h] [-q] [-d] [-u USER] [-p PROJECTS_FILE] [--include-expired]
              [--random-usage] [--only-expired] [--sort-by-col SORT_BY_COL]
              [-s] [-f]

optional arguments:
  -h, --help            Ask for help
  -q, --quiet           Quiet, abbreviated output
  -d, --debug           Include debug output
  -u USER, --user USER
  -p PROJECTS_FILE, --projects-file PROJECTS_FILE
  --include-expired     Include expired projects
  --random-usage        removed option, don't use
  --only-expired        Only show expired projects
  --sort-by-col SORT_BY_COL
                        Index (0-4) of column to sort by. Default is 0.
  -s, --slow            Deprecated. Previously ran 'du' command
  -f, --files           Reports on number of files. Only for home directories

Usage:

uquota
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Your output will be similar to this:

[sven@rackham3 ~]$ uquota
Your project     Your File Area       Unit        Usage  Quota Limit  Over Quota
---------------  -------------------  -------  --------  -----------  ----------
home             /home/sven           GiB          24.7           32
home             /home/sven           files       79180       300000
naiss2024-22-49  /proj/worldpeace     GiB           5.1          128
naiss2024-22-49  /proj/worldpeace     files       20276       100000
uquote does not show my projects ..?

uquote does not show projects

If uquote does not show your project, try projinfo or bianca_combined_jobinfo.

Else, contact support.

If you find out that your home folder is full, but do not know which folder takes up most space, use the command below to find it:

du --human --max-depth 1 .
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Your output will be similar to this:

[sven@rackham2 ~]$ du --human --max-depth 1 .
28K ./bin
52M ./.config
8.0K ./glob
1.5G ./users
484K ./.ssh
9.7M ./.lmod.d
514M ./.gradle
4.0K ./.oracle_jre_usage
84K ./.pki
3.2G ./.singularity
4.0K ./.git-credential-cache
8.0K ./.keras
6.1G ./.cache
344M ./R
740K ./.local
8.0K ./.nv
32M ./.nextflow
88K ./.r
140K ./.dbus
48K ./.subversion
8.0K ./.gnupg
480K ./.java
8.0K ./.vscode-oss
29M ./.mozilla
41M ./private
64K ./.ipython
8.0K ./.rstudio-desktop
4.0K ./.allinea
8.8M ./.beast
688K ./.gstreamer-0.10
8.4G ./.apptainer
4.0K ./my_best_folder
3.7G ./GitHubs
260K ./.kde
24K ./.jupyter
849M ./.conda
4.7M ./lib
176M ./.vscode-server
16K ./.MathWorks
8.2M ./.matlab
25G .