How does all the diskspace get used?

Posted on July 21, 2013

I have an Ubuntu server set up with the following specs

Active 512MB Ram 20GB SSD Disk New York 1 Ubuntu 12.04 x64

When I checked the available disk space, it says that I’ve already used 1.2 G. So far I’ve only installed Chef and Ruby (see here http://wiki.opscode.com/display/chef/Installing+Omnibus+Chef+Client+on+Linux+and+Mac )

root@Chef3:/var/chef/cookbooks/main# df -h /var Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/vda 20G 1.2G 18G 6% /

On another droplet, I’ve installed more packages (Ruby, Postgres database, nginx, unicorn and a Rails application) and when I check the diskspace, it also says that I’ve used the same amount.

I find it funny that both droplets say i’ve used the same amount of diskspace when there are different packages installed and one has a Rails app on it etc

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m73mitchell

July 21, 2013

@pablo I didn’t mean that all the diskspace has been used. I meant, how does all the diskspace that has been used get used? Anyways, the answer y Wyril-laximus has clarified the issue for me. Thanks

pablo

July 21, 2013

What do you mean by <b>“How does all the diskspace get used?”</b> <br> <br>On your New York 1 droplet, you have not used all the diskspace. It looks like you have 18.8 GB of diskspace left (20 GB minus 1.2 GB).