Introduction

CSE faculty, staff, and students get distinct CSE and UBIT UNIX/Linux accounts. Information pertaining to each account is available below.

Troubleshooting

"I can't log in to my account."

1. Check quota. You can't login when your quota is exceeded. Contact cse-consult@buffalo.edu to help you find and delete unnecessary files, or increase your quota if all your files are legitimately needed.

   
   % quota -v
   
   

"I'm running out of space! How do I find out which files to delete?"

1. Check quota. Use the 'disk usage' UNIX program (du) to discover which of your directories are using the most disk blocks. du is useful for suggesting where your account might need housecleaning:

   
   % du -h --max-depth=1
   
   

1. Your trash folder used by the Windowing environment.
   1. From the Desktop double click the "Trash Icon".
   2. From a CLI check out ~/.Trash
2. Your Browser Cache
   1. From the Desktop within Firefox go to "Tools"->"Clear Recent History".
   2. From a CLI check out ~/.mozilla/firefox/[RANDOM STRING].default/Cache and ~/.mozilla/firefox/[RANDOM STRING].default/Cache.Trash

"I can't run big applications (like Cadence)."

1. Check quota. You might not have enough space to run the application because it needs to write temporary files to your home directory. Use the 'disk usage' UNIX program (du) to discover which of your directories are using the most disk blocks. du is useful for suggesting where your account might need housecleaning:

   
   % du --max-depth=1