Find out what takes all the disk space

MattDeox

• May 18, 2014 12:34

Hello, I have a vps with a 40GB SSD harddrive. cPanel WHM shows 35G used under Disk Usage. When I check the accounts the combined disk usage is 3517 MB. How can I find out what takes those other 30GB? I think the system itself and cpanel takes some space but not 30GB right? Thanks

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  mlew2

  • May 18, 2014 19:24

  look in /backups I had lost most of my space with automatic backups

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  MattDeox

  • May 19, 2014 00:07

  I just check the backup configuration and backups are disabled, so it can't be it, right?

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  cPanelMichael

  • May 19, 2014 14:25

  Hello :) The following document should help you to determine where your disk space usage is coming from: cPanel - Managing HD Space Thank you.

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  MattDeox

  • May 20, 2014 15:12

  When executing the "du -sh /" command via root I get the following error: [QUOTE]du: cannot access `/proc/17935/task/17935/fd/4': No such file or directory du: cannot access `/proc/17935/task/17935/fdinfo/4': No such file or directory du: cannot access `/proc/17935/fd/4': No such file or directory du: cannot access `/proc/17935/fdinfo/4': No such file or directory
  Any Idea what's wrong there?

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  MattDeox

  • May 20, 2014 15:22

  It worked doing "du -sh /*" It seems 26G is taken by "/var/lib/mysql/ibdata1" which should be innodb tables. Isn't this already counted for mysql in the user accounts? There it shows 3G for mysql, so how do the 26G of that file make sense?

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  cPanelMichael

  • May 20, 2014 15:27

  The file you referenced is not associated with disk space usage for your accounts. It contains InnoDB data. There is a thread on this here: ibdata1 file too large Thank you.

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