To determine what is using up the majority of your disk space, run the following commands in a shell prompt in your VPS:
du -sh /home
du -sh /var
du -sh /log
Run this command on the /home, /var and /log directories, because these are the directories that are most commonly filled with user data and log files
The output of these commands will look something like this:
du -sh /home
3.1G /home
meaning that 3.1 GB of data is stored in the /home directory. To determine which folders within /home are using the most space, run the following command:
du -sh /home/*
which will list the size of each folder in /home. This is useful in determining which users are consuming the most disk space in your VPS.
For more information on using the du command, run the following command in a shell prompt:
man du
