Disk space

/home

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Everything that is small and important, like scripts and programs, should be under you home!!! Because your home is backed up every 3 hours. You find more information under:  home backup

Everything else should go under your "data space" - see below.

Everybody who has an account on our internal servers has a home directory, which is the same(!) on all our internal servers. It is called:

    /home/username

When logging in you will automatically land in your home directory. If you are in another directory and would like to go into your home directory you can do that with a simple:

    cd

    '~' is another way to address your home directory. For example:  cd ~

    '~username' is a synonym to address the home directory of user 'username'. For example:  cd ~username

You can put up to 500 MB of data under your home. There is no limit for the number of files. You can check your current quota with the command:
     quota
For more information about the command see: quota

Data space

Since most users will have more than 500 GB of data the home is too small to store all of them. Therefore, every user also has one or more "data spaces" assigned to their account. You find the name of your (first) data space in the email you got about your account creation.

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