
This article will walk you through both building and starting Asterisk. While that task might sound daunting, the Asterisk maintainers have gone through great lengths to make this process as easy as possible.

You are seeing it because the file is executable and your alias for ll includes the -F flag:-F. At the moment, Asterisk does not officially distribute packages for Linux distributions, so you’ll have to compile Asterisk from source. To list the total disk usage in a human readable-format (i.e., size specified in K/MB etc. The asterisk is not actually part of the filename. Each user group (Students - UGs/PGs and Staff/PhD) have different allowances for disk quota. You can use the linux command du (Disk Usage) is very handy for tracking down files that consume large amounts of space in your home directory. files: The number of the files in your home directory.grace: The grace period, before the end of which you must clear some files from your home directory, if you have exceeded your ‘soft limit’.This will lead to a situation where you will not be able to log into a Linux desktop. If you exceed that limit, you will not be able to create any new files. Below each heading you can also see the correlating configuration line in nf. Here well describe what each directory is used for, and what sub-directories Asterisk will place in each by default. If you have exceeded that limit, you must clear some files from your home directory before the ‘grace period’ expires. The top level directories used by Asterisk can be configured in the nf configuration file. quota: This is the ‘soft limit’ for your user.

The asterisk * next to it means that you are exceeding the allocated ‘soft limit’ for your user, which is explained next. space*: Your home directory is currently 4,4GB big.Here’s a quick explanation of these numbers: The /etc/ directory holds 90 of the configuration files for Linux and the applications that are present. In Linux, you can use the quota command to display your current quota usage: $ quota -sĭisk quotas for user jdoe123 (uid 012345):įilesystem space quota limit grace files quota limit grace The following instructions are Linux-based commands, which you can use either on an EECS Linux Desktop/Server or on a ‘ login server‘. But what about files that do start with a dot Thats harder because dot-asterisk (.
