# Files quota exceeded when trying to install Julia on a cluster with juliaup

**URL:** <https://discourse.julialang.org/t/files-quota-exceeded-when-trying-to-install-julia-on-a-cluster-with-juliaup/128469>\
**Category:** General Usage\
**Tags:** question, hpc, cluster, error, juliaup\
**Created:** [April 27, 2025, 9:15pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/files-quota-exceeded-when-trying-to-install-julia-on-a-cluster-with-juliaup/128469 "2025-04-27T21:15:13Z")\
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**Author:** ![e3c6](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/e79b87/32.png) [@e3c6](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/e3c6)\
**Post date:** [April 27, 2025, 9:15pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/files-quota-exceeded-when-trying-to-install-julia-on-a-cluster-with-juliaup/128469/1 "2025-04-27T21:15:13Z")

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I’m trying to install Julia on a cluster, running this:

```julia
curl -fsSL https://install.julialang.org | sh -s -- --path $JULIAUP_DEPOT_PATH

```

But I get the following error:

```julia
Now installing Juliaup
Error: Failed to extract downloaded file from url `https://julialang-s3.julialang.org/juliaup/bin/juliaup-1.17.19-x86_64-unknown-linux-musl.tar.gz`.

Caused by:
    0: failed to unpack `./julialauncher` into `/ccc/work/cont003/gen15768/username/apps/julia/bin/julialauncher`
    1: Quota exceeded (os error 122)

```

In this cluster they enforce some limits in terms of number of files, disk storage etc. But I should be well below the quota limits for my user.

Any idea what’s going on? Is juliaup trying to extract a large number of temporary files somewhere?  
Anyone encountered this issue before?

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**Author:** ![davidanthoff](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/davidanthoff/32/223493_2.png) [@davidanthoff](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/davidanthoff)\
**Post date:** [April 30, 2025, 4:34pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/files-quota-exceeded-when-trying-to-install-julia-on-a-cluster-with-juliaup/128469/2 "2025-04-30T16:34:51Z")

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Hm, that is weird. I think that is the step where it extracts Juliaup itself, and that should be very small and only something like two files and one symlink or something like that… Could you try to pass a different folder to `--path`, just to see whether that makes a difference?

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**Author:** ![carstenbauer](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/carstenbauer/32/4981_2.png) [@carstenbauer](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/carstenbauer)\
**Post date:** [May 1, 2025, 5:14am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/files-quota-exceeded-when-trying-to-install-julia-on-a-cluster-with-juliaup/128469/3 "2025-05-01T05:14:04Z")

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Are you sure you are extracting on the correct filesystem? Clusters often have different file systems/partitions with different quotas, e.g. home and scratch.