Okay, so I've just started university. Each student has their own network "drive" with 300MB storage space. The problem is, mine (and multiple others) aren't allowing us to save files to our space even though we have not used up all our quota. I have 18MB of files on the drive / folder. Assuming the server is using Microsoft's Windows Server OS. Obviously I don't have access to much more information than this, but it has been an issue for quite a while and the network admins seem stumped (they appear baffled by many other IT situations too, but this is the one which is affecting me the most). Just thought I'd throw this out there in case someone has come across this as a common issue before and there's an easy workaround!? Other than that I'm expecting this to be a complicated situation that can't be solved without more information.
Either the parent disk is actually full, so even though you have quota available there's no space on the drive or there's data elsewhere on the network under your user account which is adding to your quota (but this is less likely)
Get them to refund your tuition, there is no way bit-tech forum should be acting as an educational institution's network help desk! For your own insight, I would expand on Saspro's suggestion and say that there may also quota limit on top of your quota (eg total student user disk share quota is at the limit, therefore your quota cannot be fully allocated) but it could be anything really and only your admins will be able to fix it.
Curious. I've seen a similar problem with a Windows Network Share on a hard drive being shared by an ISP-Specific Router (Huawei HG635.) My Windows based devices see it as having space, whereas my Linux based devices perceive it as being full and have to be told that it's not and to continue trying to write to it. Do you see the same problem with your accounts using other devices and other OS's?
