user account large space useage cant locate reason

[ergohost]

Hey folks.

Ive got one user account on my server shows 14+ gb space useage. Its one of my own accounts and should be more like 2 - 3 Gb at a rough estimate

I have looked through it, tried reassessing quotas, cleaned out the backups and cpanelk backups etc. Nothing seems to make a difference.

Any tips to trace large files, directories etc. in the user account?

 

[ergohost]

Doh! Forgot about "Disk Space Usage" in the cpanel

Found the culprits, a number of joomla database drop files using space but not showing up in the directory listing in cpanel, but did show which dir was using the space.

Sorted.

 

[Pedro Pinto]

Hi

you should probably first check the user's tmp directory, sometime the stats eat up all of the available space

here's a small bash script that might help you identify the directory (run it on the user dir), assuming you have shell access:

for x in $(ls -a); do                                                                                                                                                              
  if [ "$x" != "." ];then                                                                                                                                                    
    if [ "$x" != ".." ];then                                                                                                                                           
      if [ -d $x ]; then                                                                                                                                         
        du -hs $x                                                                                                                                          
      fi                                                                                                                                                         
    fi                                                                                                                                                                 
fi                                                                                                                                                                         
done