100% disk usage in almost every day of this week

Hi @acionista,

Most probably it’s something related to your application. Have you managed to find the actual source of the disk usage? I’ll recommend you to try and find out what exactly is the cause.

Here are a few tips on how to pinpoint your troubles

Linux find a biggest files in /

sudo du -ha / | sort -n -r | head -n 20

It will show you top 20 of largest files in your /. Having said that, this command is quite heavy and it might take some time to execute.

Another good command to skip the directories and just search for big files is

find / -type f -printf "%s\t%p\n" | sort -n | tail -1

Another problem might be you are running out of inodes. You can check this with the following

df -i

If you are indeed running out of inodes, most probably your application is creating too much session files or temporary files which are never removed.

Regards, KDSys

Heya,

You can check which folders are using the most space on the Droplet by using the disk utilization command, du:

du -h --max-depth=1 /

Check our tutorial on How to fix disk space issues here:

https://docs.digitalocean.com/support/how-do-i-fix-disk-space-issues-on-my-droplet/

There is also an ncurses interface for du, appropriately called ncdu, that you can install:

sudo apt install ncdu

This will graphically represent your disk usage:

ncdu

Output--- /root ----------------------------------------------------------------------
    8.0KiB [##########] /.ssh
    4.0KiB [#####     ] /.cache
    4.0KiB [#####     ]  .bashrc
    4.0KiB [#####     ]  .profile
    4.0KiB [#####     ]  .bash_history

You can step through the filesystem by using the up and down arrows and pressing Enter on any directory entry.

Hope that this helps!