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Why does my droplet have a lot of used space?

Posted on November 3, 2021

I have a droplet with 80GB of space, however it reports that it has used 75GB.

/dev/vda1        78G   **75G**  2.8G  97% /

When I use the command du -h --max-depth=1 / I get the following in reply:

274M	/lib
11M	/opt
16K	/lost+found
15M	/bin
76K	/root
15M	/sbin
4.0K	/srv
0	/sys
4.0K	/media
115M	/boot
96K	/tmp
4.0K	/home
du: cannot access '/proc/18546/task/18546/fd/4': No such file or directory
du: cannot access '/proc/18546/task/18546/fdinfo/4': No such file or directory
du: cannot access '/proc/18546/fd/3': No such file or directory
du: cannot access '/proc/18546/fdinfo/3': No such file or directory
0	/proc
1.4G	/usr
8.0K	/snap
644K	/run
4.0K	/lib64
3.1G	/var
4.0K	/mnt
0	/dev
7.7M	/etc
4.9G	/

It’s only 4.9GB of space.

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