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virtfs eating up diskspace

toffe
Somehow the /home/virtfs folder is growing bigger and I"m soon out of diskspace. What is it for? Look at the screenshot that is attached. 49479 49483

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  • toffe
    The disk useage is now very critical. I think it is the backup files, but they are not located in /home/backups. How can I locate them?
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  • sparek-3
    The /home/virtfs consists of bind mounts. It's not actually taking up disk space, but will show up as used disk space when you use du. Don't delete or mess with the /home/virtfs directory, doing so will severely damage your server. Your backups are probably in /backup although I cannot be certain. Your drive is partitioned in such a way that / is the only partition, and everything is under / except for /mnt/sdb which has /dev/sdb mounted.
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  • toffe
    The /home/virtfs consists of bind mounts. It's not actually taking up disk space, but will show up as used disk space when you use du. Don't delete or mess with the /home/virtfs directory, doing so will severely damage your server. Your backups are probably in /backup although I cannot be certain. Your drive is partitioned in such a way that / is the only partition, and everything is under / except for /mnt/sdb which has /dev/sdb mounted.

    Thank you for your answer. I have no idea what is eating up the diskspace. When I look in the cpanel itemjungle is just 8.57gb not 18gb when I look in virtfs. Same goes with the user nordcart
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  • sparek-3
    Just ignore /home/virtfs The screenshot you have shows /home/itemjungle using 8.3GB that lines up pretty close to the 8.57GB you are saying shows up in itemjungle's cPanel (I would suspect that you ran another du -shc /home/itemjungle it would show 8.6GB)
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  • toffe
    If I add them together I come nowhere near 37gb. I"m adding a screenshot of "/" size
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  • cPWilliamL
    Are you excluding virtfs? For example
    du --exclude=/home/virtfs -sh /home/
    As sparek pointed out, you should simply ignore the virtfs directory; it's a virtual filesystem used for jail shell. As it is a bind mount deleting contents in virtfs will delete your actual data. The documentation below may also be helpful: VirtFS - Jailed Shell - Documentation - cPanel Documentation
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  • sparek-3
    du -shc /home is adding up /home and including /home/virtfs But /home/virtfs is a bind mount. It's not really taking up disk space. It's mirroring files that already exist on the file system. But du is not able to differentiate this - and it's not suppose to. If you REALLY want to know how much disk space is being used in /home then run du -shc /home Then run du -shc /home/virtfs Take the total from the du -shc /home command and subtract the total from du -shc /home/virtfs Bottom line: you just have to ignore /home/virtfs Edit: @cPWilliamL's command is probably better.
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  • toffe
    Hi, this does still not add up to 33gb. If nordcart is 1gb, itemjungle 8.3gb and whm&cpanel 5gb? Where is the rest. I"m currently out of disk space
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  • cPanelMichael
    Hi, this does still not add up to 33gb. If nordcart is 1gb, itemjungle 8.3gb and whm&cpanel 5gb? Where is the rest. I"m currently out of disk space

    Hello, The following document offers some helpful commands to use to determine where the space is coming from: How to Manage your Hard Drive Space - cPanel Knowledge Base - cPanel Documentation Also, is this a VPS? If so, check with your VPS provider to make sure it's not the hardware node itself that's limited on space. Thank you.
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  • sparek-3
    What does du -shc --exclude=/home/virtfs --exclude=/mnt/sdb --exclude=/proc /* show? You may need to invest in a server administrator to look into this for you. You will have to systematically go through the directories on your server to find the largest ones and narrowing that down through each iteration.
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  • toffe
    What does du -shc --exclude=/home/virtfs --exclude=/mnt/sdb --exclude=/proc /* show? You may need to invest in a server administrator to look into this for you. You will have to systematically go through the directories on your server to find the largest ones and narrowing that down through each iteration.

    Hi that command gives me: du -shc --exclude=/home/virtfs --exclude=/mnt/sdb --exclude=/proc /* 12K /aquota.user 7.4M /bin 174M /boot 4.0K /cgroup 164K /dev 33M /etc 11G /home 658M /lib 27M /lib64 16K /lost+found 4.0K /media 8.0K /mnt 142M /opt 4.0K /razor-agent.log 21M /root 8.0K /run 16M /sbin 0 /scripts 4.0K /selinux 4.0K /srv 0 /sys 932K /tmp 6.3G /usr 2.6G /var 21G total There is now 33gb used of 50gb on the disk. (screenshot attached)
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  • cPanelMichael
    There is now 33gb used of 50gb on the disk. (screenshot attached)

    Hello, Were you able to check with your VPS provider to make sure it's not the hardware node itself that's limited on space (per my last response)? Thank you.
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  • toffe
    I think I found the solution. For some reason my additional disk gets unmounted now and then (mnt/sdb) which contains my backupfiles. When the additional disk gets unmounted, backups are still saved to mnt/sdb, but will then be on the main disk. When I mount the disk again these files in mnt/sdb on the main disk, will be hidden
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  • cPanelMichael
    Hello, In "WHM >> Backup Configuration", this is controllable with the following option: Mount Backup Drive as Needed Thank you.
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