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Quota Archany

Your quota use is sum of all the files on the structure in question owned by you. There are three possibilities I can think of to consider if you're over quota but seem not to be:

Your Netscape Cache - your netscape cache is in .netscape/cache. A normal "du" will not show it (files starting with '.' don't normally appear on an "ls" or a "du"). You can see what your cache use is by explicitly asking -- "du .netscape/cache". You can clear you cache either inside netscape (Preferences -> Advanced -> Cache -> Clear Disk Cache), or with the "clearcache" command at your unix prompt.
A running program has files open - If you delete a file that is still open by a running program, the file disappears from your directory, but is still kept alive by the system until closed. Typically when this happens a file or files called .nfsXXXXX will appear (use ls -a to see it) in your directory. If you "rm" these files, they will magically reappear, since the program is still running.
In this case, you need to look around at processes that might still be running that are keeping the file open.
```
          /usr/ucb/ps -aux | grep myusername
```
will show them to you. Use "kill" to kill them. "ps" will show you the PID (process ID number) -- it's the first number after the username. If, for instance, the PID was 22374, you'd use
```
          kill -9 22374
```
("kill -9" means "kill this and I mean it". See "man kill" for more information.) If you use remus and romulus, the offending process might be on the other machine, so you may have to look on both machines.
The files may not be in or under your home directory. This happens when students are in a group project, and using a shared directory underneath one of their's home directory (with appropriate permissions set, see "chmod" and "chgrp" man pages). Even though files may not be under your home directory, if you own 'em, your quota gets charged.