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Quota Information
Registered users of the central computing services are subject to several quotas.
- CFS Personal Mail and File Quotas
- Profile Quota
- Departmental X: Drive Quota
- ALICE/SPECTRE Service Quota
- Web Account Quota
CFS Personal Mail and File Quotas
If you use the CFS service there is a limit to the storage space available for you to save work in your Z: drive (My Documents folder) and a limit to the capacity of your email mailbox. Students, Staff and other groups get different initial quotas and this status also determines how much these quotas can be increased at no cost to your department.
Staff and Research Postgraduates can request further increases above those listed but for this, departments are charged at £1/GB/Month (We can only increase a Z: drive to an upper limit of 5GB).
Your Departmental IT Contact should be able to tell you if this is acceptable and provide you with the necessary charge code.
| Service | Category of User | Z: drive (My Documents) Quota | Total free Quota on request | Email Quota |
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CFS Service |
Members of Staff |
550MB |
1050MB |
500MB |
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Associates |
550MB |
1050MB |
500MB |
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Research Postgraduates |
550MB |
1050MB |
500MB |
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Taught Postgraduates |
100MB |
150MB |
100MB |
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Undergraduates |
100MB |
150MB |
100MB |
Checking Quota Used/Requesting Additional Quota
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To check your Z: drive (My Documents folder) usage |
Choose start > My Computer and click on <username> on ‘cfs.le.ac.uk\Root\Users…(Z:)’.
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To request an increase in your Z: drive (My Documents) quota: |
Contact the IT Service Desk. |
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To check your mailbox usage: |
In the Outlook Folder list right-click on Mailbox -<yourname> at the top of the list, and choose Properties for Mailbox. In the dialog box displayed click on Folder Size... to display a window showing the Total Size of your mailbox. (Divide the KB value by 1000 to work out the MB used.) |
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To request an increase in your mailbox quota: |
Increases in email quotas are not usually available, see Using and Managing Email. |
Profile Quota for CFS
If you use the CFS service you will have a 'Profile' which also has a quota. Your profile is used to store your personal settings for your CFS work environment. Your profile quota is independent of your Z: drive (My Documents) and mailbox quotas and is set to 12MB. If you have a problem logging off the CFS service due to the size of you profile, see Dealing with profile problems for advice.
Departmental X: Drive Quota
Many departments use the departmental X: drive to share files amongst their staff and, like the Z: drive, space on the X: drive is limited by quota. The default quota for departmental X: drives varies depending on the size of department, between 25GB and 100GB. Additional space can be requested - but this is a chargeable service.
Checking Quota Used/Requesting Additional Quota
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To check your departments X: drive usage: |
Contact the IT Service Desk. |
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To request an increase in your departments X: drive quota: |
Ask your Departmental IT Contact to contact the IT Service Desk. |
ALICE/SPECTRE Service Quota
There is a soft quota of 10GB for all HPC users with a hard quota set above this to allow short term breach of quota.
Checking Quota Used/Requesting Additional Quota
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To check your ALICE/SPECTRE usage: |
Use the quotacheck command at the ALICE/SPECTRE prompt. |
Web Account Quota
If you have a web account (used to publish information to the CWIS - not Plone) then this will be subject to a default quota of 20Mb.
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To check your Web Account Usage: |
Click the 'Check Quota' button in the Web Edit Suite and enter your account details. |
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To request an increase in your Web Account quota: |
Contact the IT Service Desk. |
