File Usage in cPanel's Main Control Panel Query

What does this mean exactly?

 

Hello @Mrinmoy,

File Usage refers to disk inodes, or the number of files uploaded to your account. If the number increases, it means more files were created. You can use cPanel >> File Manager or a FTP client to look at all of the files under the /home/username/ directory. A new email is one of the more common reasons to see an inode increase if you are not uploading new website files.

Thank you.

 

You can open cPanel >> Terminal if it's enabled as a feature for your cPanel account. Once it's opened, run the following command to see the inode count for each subdirectory under /home/username/:

Code:

echo "Inode usage for: $(pwd)" ; for d in `find -maxdepth 1 -type d |cut -d\/ -f2 |grep -xv . |sort`; do c=$(find $d |wc -l) ; printf "$c\t\t- $d\n" ; done ; printf "Total: \t\t$(find $(pwd) | wc -l)\n"

Thank you.