Disk Quotas on UMnet-Managing Disk Quotas

DISK QUOTAS

Disk quotas have been placed on all UMnet accounts as a means to fairly distribute limited computing resources.

As an individual account holder, you have been allocated a fixed amount of disk space on UMnet. All the files you store in your account, including e-mail messages saved in folders stored on UMnet, count against your disk quota. You are responsible for monitoring your disk usage, and for deleting files that you no longer need so that you do not exceed your quota.

Your account actually has two quota values associated with it, a "soft quota" and a "hard quota." The soft quota is your regular or permanent quota; in other words, it is the amount of disk space that has been allocated to your account.When the "soft" quota is reached, the system will warn the account holder once. The system will not allow an account holder to go beyond the "hard" quota, e.g. during an ftp file transfer, if the file transfer the "hard" quota, the transfer will fail.

Once an account holder is notified that they have exceeded their "soft" quota, they are given a period of seven days to delete the necessary files to bring them back under their "soft" quota. If after seven days, an account holder still exceeds their "soft" quota, their "soft" quota becomes their "hard" quota and the account holder will not be able to write anything to disk until they delete files which will bring them under their "soft" quota.

If an account holder does not log onto the system within the seven day period after their "soft" quota becomes their "hard" quota, system managers have the right to delete files owned by the account holder to bring them down back to their "soft" quota.

It is the intent of Computing and Technology Services to provide adequate disk storage needs for account holders by allocating each "soft" quota which is ample for the intended communication services. The "hard" quota is established as a convenience to account holders so that they can temporarily retrieve files from other sources.

UMnet ACCOUNT QUOTAS

The soft quota on UMnet accounts for e-mail is 180 MB, the hard quota is 200 MB.
The soft quota on UMnet accounts for file storage (WEBDISK) is 45 MB, the hard quota is 50 MB.

CHECKING YOUR QUOTA ON UMnet

Access your Open Webmail account.
Your quota usage is noted on the toolbar.

DELETING FILES

There are several ways to delete e-mail messages on Open Webmail:

Method 1:

1. Access your Open Webmail account Inbox.
2. Select the checkbox to the far right of the message your want to delete.
3. Click on the Move to Trash button.
4. At the Are you sure you want to move the selected message(s)? message, click OK.
5. Go to the Trash folder.
6. Click on the Empty Trash button.
7. At the Empty trash (xx messages)? message, click OK.

Method 2:

1. Access your Open Webmail account Inbox.
2. Select the checkbox to the far right of the message you want to delete.
3. Select Trash from the drop down box.
4. Click on the Move button.
5. At the Are you sure you want to move the selected message(s)? message, click OK.
6. Go to the Trash folder.
7. Click on the Empty Trash button.
8. At the Empty trash (xx messages)? message, click OK.

 Method 3:

1. Access your Open Webmail account Inbox.
2. Select the checkbox to the far right of the message you want to delete.
3. Select Delete from the drop down box.
4. Click on Move.

QUESTIONS?

For questions about managing your disk quota, please contact the ASC Help Desk at 410-706-HELP (weekdays, 8:00 am to 5:00 pm) or e-mail the Help Desk at help@umaryland.edu.