[Hcoop-discuss] Interpreting quota information

[Adam Chlipala]

Michael Olson wrote:

>Out of curiosity, how does one convert the sizes given by invocation
>of "quota -g" to MB?
>
>I'm a bit concerned, because running "du . -sh" from ~/ gives me
>333MB used, but "quota -g" yields 2943840 blocks.
>  
>
Each user has the majority of his space usage coming from files stored 
outside his home directory.  In particular, backups of your home 
directory are stored elsewhere.  The disparity you're seeing is probably 
because of this, not an issue of units of measurements.