I have a droplet that runs out of disk space very quickly and it’s not possiblt to find what is taking up the disk.
I have deleted all kinds of logs and backups, yet the disk is still 90% full even though it is almost empty according to the calculations.
It’s as if there is some ghost disk space somewhere.
df -h
/dev/vda1 25G 22G 3.0G 88% /
Yet when I calculated space at root I can only account for 8GB used
sudo du -h --max-depth=0 /
8.8G /
Any idea where the rest of my disk space could be?
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Hello,
I would recommend starting with the following steps here:
The output would look something like this:
In my case I am using 20G out of 25GB available for my root partition. Basically the
df
command reports the file system disk space usage.The output should look something like:
Depending on the size of your disk, the command might take a while to complete. You can then go ahead and delete any of the large files that you do not need.
du
command which estimates the file space usage:For example:
Then we can
cd
into the largest folder and run the command again:We would need to do that a few more times until we get to the folder that is using those 5GB:
Then one more time:
And again:
We’ve found the folder! We can see how many files are in the folder by running this command:
Note: if you have a database service like MySQL, make sure Not to delete any files manually from the MySQL folder. This would cause issues with your database.
If you are unable to clear any disk space I would recommend upgrading your Droplet.
Let me know if you have any questions!
Regards,
Bobby