newbie disk usage question

[shamp00]

Hi

Can someone please tell me that there is nothing unusual going on here - I'm pretty new to linux and don't really understand the file structure....

I have a VPS-01 with 15GB of disk space allowed. Doing du -sh is showing that approx 11GB is being used.

I have approx 3GB in my /home directory and the same again in /backup, which makes sense, but this means there is a further 5GB elsewhere on the disk.

Does this sound right (ie if you purchase a 15gb VPS, about 10GB is actually usable?)

I'm wondering whether i need to consider upgrading to a larger VPS, or if there are some things I can delete without causing damage!

Thanks for any advice

Matt

[Jack]

Hello Matt,

3 GB disk space is utilized by operating system and cPanel/WHM. With 15 GB space on L-VPS-01, usable disk space is 12 GB. You can upgrade the plan if you require more resources.

Please feel free to post if you have any questions.

[Rock]

Originally Posted by shamp00

Hi

Can someone please tell me that there is nothing unusual going on here - I'm pretty new to linux and don't really understand the file structure....

I have a VPS-01 with 15GB of disk space allowed. Doing du -sh is showing that approx 11GB is being used.

I have approx 3GB in my /home directory and the same again in /backup, which makes sense, but this means there is a further 5GB elsewhere on the disk.

Does this sound right (ie if you purchase a 15gb VPS, about 10GB is actually usable?)

I'm wondering whether i need to consider upgrading to a larger VPS, or if there are some things I can delete without causing damage!

Thanks for any advice

Matt

Hi Matt,

Here's the exact disk space utilisation of your VPS:

-bash-3.00# du -sh *
0       aquota.group
0       aquota.user
2.9G    backup
4.0M    bin
4.0K    boot
20K     dev
6.7M    etc
3.3G    home
4.0K    initrd
17M     lib
4.0K    media
4.0K    mnt
15M     opt
0       proc
132M    root
6.3M    sbin
7.5M    scripts
4.0K    selinux
4.0K    srv
4.0K    stunnel.rnd
0       sys
143M    tmp
3.1G    usr
873M    var

When summed up it's ~10.5 to 11G.

Here's the df -h output:

-bash-3.00# df -h
Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/vzfs              15G   11G  4.8G  69% /

15G - 10.5G = 4.8G

Let us know if you need any further assistance with this