How to Check Disk Space Usage from cPanel

You can view an overview of the disk space that your account is utilizing with the cPanel Disk Usage Viewer. Rather than disc utilization totals for specific files or databases, it displays the total amount of disk usage for all of your account’s databases and folders. To view disk utilization information for specific files, use the File Manager; to view information for specific databases, use the MySQL home page.

1. Login to your cPanel and access Disk Usage under Files section.

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

It shows a detail view of the files under home directory, files in hidden sub directories. You get an overview as to which files/directories are consuming much space.

3. Once you scroll down, it allows you to expand sub directories. It shows the size of sub directories in MB and bytes. You can sort these directories with Name OR Disk Usage.

Due to the nature of how files are stored 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. This may cause discrepancies between the data you see in the File Manager versus the information you find in the table below. Moreover, the disk space usage in the table below indicates how much space the directories’ contents use, not how much space the directory itself uses. Directories themselves usually use a negligible amount of disk space unless they contain a large number of files or sub directories.

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