EWS Labs, Home Directory Disk Quota

EWS users are given 10 gigabytes of storage that is shared between EWS Windows and Linux. If you fill up your disk space (or "quota"), you won't be able to write additional files to your drive and the system may respond oddly.  We strongly recommend moving files that are not used for this semester to the free cloud storage provided through your campus account, such as Box, Google Drive or OneDrive (sign into these services with your campus account). 

When the EWS home directory is full, below is a list of different symptoms that you may see:

Check for and resolve an over-quota issue from Windows

1. On a personal device, follow this guide to map your Windows home directory but for step 3 use the path below instead - Remote access to your EWS Windows home directory.
   The paths are split by the first letter of your NetID (e.g. If your NetID were frodo123 the path would be \\ews-unity.ad.uillinois.edu\fs2-homes\frodo123)
   

   1. For NetIDs abc - \\ews-unity.ad.uillinois.edu\fs1-homes\YourNetIDhere

   2. For NetIDs defgh - \\ews-unity.ad.uillinois.edu\fs2-homes\YourNetIDhere

   3. For NetIDs ijkl - \\ews-unity.ad.uillinois.edu\fs3-homes\YourNetIDhere

   4. For NetIDs mnop - \\ews-unity.ad.uillinois.edu\fs4-homes\YourNetIDhere

   5. For NetIDs qrs - \\ews-unity.ad.uillinois.edu\fs5-homes\YourNetIDhere

   6. For NetIDs tuvwxyz - \\ews-unity.ad.uillinois.edu\fs6-homes\YourNetIDhere

2. Open Windows PowerShell
   
   
3. Using the image below as an example, input the drive letter of the mapped drive and a colon character, then press Enter to navigate to that drive
   
   
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4. Copy the following command into PowerShell, then press Enter to check your quota
   
   
   1. "{0:N2} GB" -f ((Get-ChildItem .\ -Recurse -Force | Measure-Object -Property Length -Sum -ErrorAction Stop).Sum / 1GB)
      
      
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5. Copy the following command into PowerShell, then press Enter to see the 20 largest files in gigabytes
   
   
   1. gci -r -force | sort -descending -property length | select -first 20 fullname, @{Name="Gigabytes";Expression={[Math]::round($_.length / 1GB, 2)}}
      
      
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6. Alternatively, open the mapped home directory through File Explorer, then right-click a folder under your home directory and select "Properties." This will show you the size of every file and folder that is stored within that folder -- you can use this to narrow down which folders may contain the files using most of your storage space.
   
   
7. Delete content as needed using File Explorer. When deleting content, press Shift-Delete to permanently delete files, as content in the Recycle Bin counts towards your quota.

Check your quota from Linux

Resolve an over-quota issue from Linux