The Quota Increase Web Interface

Use the Carnegie Mellon Web Portal to edit your Andrew File System (AFS) and Cyrus mail quotas and to view your current quota usage.

Note: The Quota Increase Tool CANNOT be used to:

• Request or increase the allocated space for project volumes.

• Increase the Quota for club or sponsored accounts
  
  These requests must be directed to the Help Center by sending mail to Advisor or calling x8-HELP.

Accessing the Quota Increase Web Page

To increase your quota using the Web portal:

1. From the Carnegie Mellon Web Portal COMPUTING tab select Quotas.
2. Do either of the following:
   • Select email quota.
   • Select afs quota (Andrew File space).
   • Select server docs (my files) quota (cluster machine storage space for your files).  See Clusters documentation.
   • Select windows roaming profile quota (your Window cluster preferences). See Clusters documentation.
3. The appropriate quota screen appears. To increase your quota, select the quota you want to set to from the pull down menu, then click Increase.
   

Your Current Quota

This area provides information about the existing quota and usage of your AFS and Cyrus quotas. This information includes:

• %Used: percentage of current quota that is in use
• Used: amount of space used in megabytes
• Current Quota: amount of space currently allocated for AFS and Cyrus
• Maximum Quota: the maximum amount of space you are allowed for AFS and Cyrus
  
  Note: Currently, the maximum quota is 2 GB for Cyrus and 1 GB for AFS.