# Checking Storage Usage Reaching storage capacity is a common issue for users. In your `/home` directory you'll have about 10GB of storage capacity. Any large data files or programs should be put in your `/scratch` directory. #### Checking storage quota The command that will be most useful for you is `getquotas`. ```bash [abc123@wind ~ ]$ getquotas Filesystem #Bytes Quota % | #Files Quota % /home 5503M 10000M 55% | - - - /scratch 184.3G 13.97T 1% | 310K 2M 15% [abc123@wind ~ ]$ ``` The `#Bytes` column shows your storage usage and the Quota column shows your storage capacity. Your `/home` directory will have far less storage than your personal `/scratch` directory or that of any `/projects` directories you have. Avoid putting large data files or programs in `/home`, because it will fill up quickly. The `quota` command will also tell you how much storage is used and available for your `/home`. #### Clearing up space When you are trying to free up space, you can use the du or find commands to identify large files you want to delete. Here's a du command example that will output in sorted order the largest files in your `/home` (largest files will be at the bottom of the output stream): ```bash du -h --apparent-size --max-depth=1 ~/ | sort -h ``` This is another example, this time using the find command, to identify files larger than 1GB: ```bash find ~/ -type f -size +1G | xargs -d '\n' du -h ``` Run the above command(s) in the directory where you are at or near capacity. Once you find the files/directories you want to remove you can use the `rm` command. Disclaimer: The `rm` command is destructive. It will not keep a copy in a Trash directory like it would on a windows desktop. Once you run `rm` you will not be able to recover your data. If you have files that you want to move to another directory, run `cp` to copy over to the new location, and then run `rm` to remove your original copy. The `rm` and `cp` commands need the `-r` flag if you are working with directories. This will tell the program to recursively remove or copy, the contents of the directory. #### Learn More If you have any questions feel free to [contact us]().