Can't find disk space in /home directory

Garrettj94

• May 09, 2016 23:00

I am getting ready to move my cPanel website to a new server, using WHM's transfer feature. Before I start, I checked how large my site is, because my new server is only 40GB. When I type "df -h", it says my website is 64GB. Furthermore, "du -sh /home/USER/" is 56GB, then when I add a wildcard *, it lists this: [LIST]

0 /home/USER/access-logs

4.0K /home/USER/bin

80K /home/USER/cache

4.0K /home/USER/cpbackup-exclude.conf

8.0K /home/USER/etc

1.3M /home/USER/logs

2.5M /home/USER/mail

80K /home/USER/php

12K /home/USER/public_ftp

2.0G /home/USER/public_html

32K /home/USER/ssl

1.6G /home/USER/tmp

0 /home/USER/www Public_html is only 2GB, where is the remaining 54GB???

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  Garrettj94

  • May 10, 2016 15:49

  I still can't find where these files are, anyone have a suggestion?

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  dalem

  • May 10, 2016 22:48

  you must have a hidden folder with stuff in it cd /home/USER du -sch .[!.]* * |sort -h/

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  webhostuk

  • May 11, 2016 08:26

  Also check the whole server might be there is some folder with user ownership, it can be under backup folder if you have it.

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  storminternet

  • May 11, 2016 13:34

  Perhaps there can be some backup files with the ownership of your account resides in server. Try with linux command "find -name username" under /home

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  dalem

  • May 11, 2016 13:46

  Also check the whole server might be there is some folder with user ownership, it can be under backup folder if you have it.

  
  that would be good advice if the user account quota was off but the op is doing a du -sh /home/USER/ on the actual directory so owned files in other directories will have no effect

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  cPanelMichael

  • May 25, 2016 19:57

  urthermore, "du -sh /home/USER/" is 56GB, then when I add a wildcard *, it lists this:

  
  Hello, As mentioned, you could have a folder that starts with a period because it's not part of the wildcard command you used. Thank you.

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