Query About cPanel disk space usage calculation

[crazyaboutlinux]

Hi,

Can cPanel folk tell about disk space usage calculation utility of cpuser ??

Home (not in a subdirectory) 0.13 MB
Home/etc 0.76 MB
Home/mail 3597.91 MB
Home/public_ftp 0.00 MB
Home/public_html 13.09 MB
Home/tmp 2.46 MB
Home/(other subdirectories) 28.55 MB
MySQL 0.00 MB
Other 3623.29 MB
Total 7266.20 MB

can cPanel folk tell where Other 3623.29 MB is being used ?? how can i empty it ??

3 days before it was showing less 2500 MB & now suddenly its showing Total 7266.20 MB ??

how it is possible ???

[Poonam]

Hello,

You have to contact your hosting provider for this they can help you here.

Physically the all the files which are present under your account /home/username and Mysql database in /var/lib/mysql.
In linux systems the disk space is calculated by the ownership of files and the place where the files exists.
So you'll need to check on the server if any other files or olders except the ones under your account has the ownership of your cpanel user.

If you have the root access of the server, you can use following command to check all the files with the user "username" in /home directory.

find /home -user username

Hope this will help.

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Poonam
HOSTC0IN

[netandino]

Currently I have the same problem with some clients, I've checked everything and even gave not the exact problem, I would like to know because it is so.

Customers report that was generated only when you install this script like joomla and wordpress

Files in home directory 0.05 MB
Files in hidden subdirectories 0.43 MB
etc/ 0.03 MB
mail/ 1.50 MB
public_ftp/ 0.00 MB
public_html/ 41.73 MB
tmp/ 0.02 MB
MySQL 0.00 MB
Mailing lists 0.00 MB
Other usage 117.11 MB
160.88 MB total disk space used
250.00 MB quota limit ({mib} MB used)



It Is the Usage in /home/userclient

[cPanelTristan]

Did you run the suggested command? Although, I would personally check for / not just /home:

find /home -user username
find / -user username

Any files owned by the user should show up and they will be counted as part of the disk space total.

[TheSidewinder]

Bit late to resurrect, but running those commands really isn't much help when the result is that ALL returned files are already in /home/user, AND which are already owned by that user.

I got a mile-long list of files, which were ALL in the /home/user/ directory and substructure.

I already ran:

chown -R user:user /home/user/public_html/*

So, there are no files owned by "user" other than those in /home/user and still cPanel is saying "Other usage 103 MB".

Where is that 103 MB being used?

[cPanelMichael]

Hello

Feel free to open a support ticket so we can investigate the issue further for you:

Submit A Ticket

You can post the ticket number here so we may track the issue.

Thank you.

[TheSidewinder]

This issue isn't specific to one server, or I would. I'm the admin for about 50 servers, all running WHM/cPanel, and this shows up quite often on any of them.

Let me re-phrase my question(s).

On the same server, some accounts will show zero for that column while others show usage.

Exactly how is that "Other usage" calculated?

Where is it "looking" (for want of a better word) to come up with that figure?

Thanks in advance.

[cPanelTristan]

Other will find files outside /home/user and count that usage in some instance. Opening up a ticket for one server so we can discern where that usage stems would be most helpful. That way we can see if there's an actual issue or whether there is not.

[andreika]

Hello everybody,

I encountered the same problem on my blog. I'm using wordpress and the 'other usage' in my case was almost 500 mb. I made a filtering by size and found out that most of the disk space was occupied by a file called error_log.

I just deleted the file and it solved my problem. I hope this helps.

Regards,
Andrei

[cPanelTristan]

If you had a 500 MB error_log for PHP, that log would have been relatively large in size. Since PHP script errors are logged to the error_log file, it would have been useful to check the errors logging to it prior to removing it.

Additionally, the file is simply going to reform on the account due to error logging being on, and that file will grow in size again. Fixing the PHP errors on your site or in your code would be the more beneficial course of action.

[Thiagom]

Good morning.

I am problems from "other usage" in Cpanel.

My system is CentOS from Cpanel WHM 11.32.3 (build 23)

Someone managed to solve this problem?

[cPanelMichael]

Good morning.

I am problems from "other usage" in Cpanel.

My system is CentOS from Cpanel WHM 11.32.3 (build 23)

Someone managed to solve this problem?

It's not necessarily a problem if you see disk space usage under "Other Usage". Have you tried using the "find" commands mentioned in this thread to determine which files are using the disk space?

Thank you.

[activa]

same isseu here in some of my servers , some client need to know where is this files !!!!

[cPanelMichael]

same isseu here in some of my servers , some client need to know where is this files !!!!

Please try using the commands provided at:

Query About cPanel disk space usage calculation

This should help to determine where the other files are located.

Thank you.

[activa]

Please try using the commands provided at:

Query About cPanel disk space usage calculation

This should help to determine where the other files are located.

Thank you.

i found some files in
/backup folder and /eaccellerator tmp folder