Disk Space Usage  Print this Article

This interface displays information about how you use your disk space. It can also help you manage your disk space quota, because it indicates files and directories that use large amounts of hard disk space.

The Disk Space Usage feature lists all of the subdirectories contained within your home directory. You can click any of the listed directories to open the appropriate subdirectory in cPanel's File Manager feature. This function allows you to view specific disk usage information about individual files and directories contained within the subdirectory.

Note: The Disk Space Usage feature does not display disk usage information for individual files contained within your home directory.

This feature also displays disk space usage summaries for:

  • Files contained within your home directory
  • Files in hidden subdirectories
  • Mailing lists in Mailman
  • Files not contained within your home directory (see Other Usage bar)

Note: The bars in the graph represent disk usage figures relative to the largest directory, not a fixed scale.

Notes

Due to the nature of storing files electronically, most files occupy slightly more disk space than their actual size. For example, a 300 byte file may occupy 4 KB of actual disk space. As a result, you may find some discrepancies between data in the File Manager feature and the Disk Space Usage feature.

The disk space usage information contained in this feature does not indicate how much space the directory itself uses. It only displays disk usage information about the directory's contents. Typically, directories themselves occupy a negligible amount of disk space.

The figures contained in the Disk Space Usage feature may not reflect recent changes in your account's disk space.

Was this answer helpful?

Also Read

File Manager
File Manager allows cPanel users to manage and edit their files. The File Manager Directory...
Backups
The Backups area provides a basic interface for downloading and storing all or some of the...
Backup Wizard
The Backup Wizard is a user-friendly interface you can use to create a backup of the entire site,...
How To Exclude Files From Backups
You can exclude files and directories from your backups by creating an exclude file in your home...
Web Disk
The Web Disk application allows you to manage and manipulate files on your server in multiple...