How to Check Disk Usage
- Ben Bush
If you ever receive an email from cPanel that you are nearing your disk quota, odds are you have almost filled your account. This will mean that you need to remove some content, be it old emails, files, folders, or other services. But how can you tell where your space is being used? We happen to have a tool that does just that! Here is how to find it:
Login to your cPanel account.
Scroll down your cPanel home page until you locate the 'Files' section, and from there, select the Disk Space Usage icon.
Your Disk Space Usage menu is divided into two sections: The first is a graphic showing you your file manager directory path, and giving you the disk space being used in each. In this case, the public_html folder is where the majority of my space is being used, so that is where I would look to see what can be removed.
The Second half gives you a bit more information. The + signs on the left can be selected to expand and show the space of each sub directory listed. You can also organize these results by 'Name' or 'Disk Usage' as shown on the top. This feature with be the most useful to you if the majority of your space is in fact located somewhere in your file structure.
