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Disk Quotas
Regular quotas in UNIX are done on a per-user basis. A quota on
the NFS filesystem is generally something like
``User a is allowed to store b blocks of data on disk c.''
Although this worked fine in the days when machines had few
disks and few users, it doesn't work well at all for shared
space.
In AFS, quotas are set on a
per-volume basis. That means it doesn't matter who writes into
an AFS volume, it only has a fixed amount of space. The
quota on an AFS volume can be examined with the fs listquota command
(see section 6.2 of this document).
You should note that the space your OldFiles backup volume
takes does not count against your user quota.