USER DISK QUOTA

quota

Display user's maximum allowed disk space usage. (See `man quota` for detailed
usage of this command. This is not a custom command, but it warrants some
explanation here).

To ensure the VM doesn't totally run out of room (and to be sure that users
don't just mass-upload files or upload ridiculously large files - after all,
the whole floppy disk is just 1.44MB), user disk quotas are set on this
system. This command will output something akin to the following:

Disk quotas for user fdiskquota (uid 1007):
     Filesystem  blocks   quota   limit   grace   files   quota   limit   grace
      /dev/sdb1       0   14400   14400               1       0       0

The important things here are the first 'blocks', 'quota', and 'limit' columns.
The 'blocks' entry represents how many 1K blocks of storage you've used on the
system. 'Quota' is the soft limit (in 1K blocks) of your disk usage (it'll give
you a warning that you're out of space), and 'limit' is the hard limit (it'll
mean it). The user directories under /home are on a different device than the
cached sectors in /usr/share/sectors, so even if you owned all 2880 sectors on
the disk, it shouldn't affect your intended user limit (although you might lose
a couple of K to directory and filesystem information).

In the example above, the user is allowed 14400K (TEN floppy disks!) of
storage. If, for whatever reason, the default isn't enough (say you've got some
hefty user scripts or even just a good chunk of image files you want to turn
into sectors), just message me (jebug29, the sysadmin, jebug29@sectordisk.pw),
and ask about increasing your storage. I don't mind at all if one or two users
want to use a bit more -- even double or triple -- just be mindful of the other
users on the system and my own limited disk space! ;)