Home is often used by a variety of programs use store configuration files and directories along with some cached information. These directories can contain many files and use up quite a bit of storage. An example is vscode, which stores quite a bit of data within the .vscode-server  directory located in $HOME . This directory can contain upwards of 1000 files and use on the order of 100 MB. This will impact your quota on home. We recommend moving such directories to a "fakeHome" directory in: /software/projects/<project>/<username>/fakeHome. Then generate a symbolic link in $HOME that points to the corresponding directory:

$ mkdir -p $MYSOFTWARE/fakeHome
$ mv cp -r $HOME/.vscode-server $MYSOFTWARE/fakeHome   # if .vscode_server dir initially exists in $HOME
$ rm -r $HOME/.vscode-server                        # if .vscode_server dir alreadyinitially exists in your $HOME 
$ mkdir -p $MYSOFTWARE/fakeHome/.vscode-server       # if .vscode_server doesdid not existinitially yetexisted in your $HOME
$ cd $HOME
$ ln -s $MYSOFTWARE/fakeHome/.vscode-server $HOME/.vscode-server         # generate a symbolic link (make sure you are in $HOME)

Note that we are using cp + rm and not mv to transfer the .vscode-server directory to another filesystem in order to get the right ownership of files in the new filesystem and remove their original ownership that is consuming the $HOME quota, otherwise the quota of the transferred files would still be assigned to $HOME quota.