You can check your storage quotas with the command quota on the front-end system Ela (ela.cscs.ch) and the User Access Nodes (UANs) of Eiger, Daint.Alps and Santis Eiger and Daint.Alps:
Example output of the quota command
$ quota Retrieving data ... User: testuser Usage data updated on: 2025-02-21 16:01:27 +------------------------------------+--------+-----+-------+----+-------------+----------+-----+---------+------+-------------+ | | User quota | Proj quota | | User files | Proj files | | +------------------------------------+--------+-----+-------+----+-------------+----------+-----+---------+------+-------------+ | Directory | Used | % | Used | % | Quota limit | Used | % | Used | % | Files limit | +------------------------------------+--------+-----+-------+----+-------------+----------+-----+---------+------+-------------+ | /iopsstor/scratch/cscs/testuser | 4.0K | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | | /capstor/scratch/cscs/testuser | 8.0K | 0.0 | - | - | 150.0T | 2 | 0.0 | - | - | 1000000 | | /users/testuser | 32.0K | 0.0 | - | - | 50.0G | 42 | 0.0 | - | - | 500000 | +------------------------------------+--------+-----+-------+----+-------------+----------+-----+---------+------+-------------+
Please note that the command reports in the output a table with the the disk space and the number of files, since the latter as well are subject to a specific quota limits. Therefore we recommend users to consider archiving folders with the tar command in order to keep low the number of files owned by users and groups.
Please check the quotas enforced at CSCS on the page dedicated to file systems available on the CSCS Knowledge Base