Novice question: diskspace usage

[heavyharmonies]

I know just enough to be dangerous when it comes to WHM, Cpanel, etc.

I'm trying to figure out where diskspace is being used. According to the VPS control panel, Approximately 18 GB of diskspace is in use on my VPS. Adding up the total amount in use under WHM by all accounts adds up to just under 12GB.

Where is the other 6GB coming from? That seems like an awful lot of overhead.

Are the web logs for each domain included in the amount reported by WHM or is that part of the overhead?

In lay terms, what is the best way to ferret out what the 6GB extra is comprised of, and what can be pruned/cleaned? What directories should I be looking at, both at the domain level and at the root level?

Thanks.

[Daniel_DBS]

Well being that you have a VPS that means you have more counting against your quota that you think...

On a VPS, the entire operating system, all the logs, MySQL databases, cPanel/WHM files, and EVERYTHING else is also included in your usage summary.

You can find out exactly where the most space being used by logging in to the shell as root.

Type the following at the command prompt:

cd /
du --max-depth=1

That will give you a basic overview of what is the largest... Usually it is /usr

I would suggest logging into VZ and going to your file manager to the /home directory and DELETING the following:

.cpan
.cpcpan
MySQL-Install
cpbackuptmp
cpeasyapache

Those are all related to various cpanel updates... Once the update is finished, those files are no longer needed and are not auto deleted. Although, the next cPanel update you run, it will recreate those junk folders, so the best thing to do would be to write a small script and set it to CRON about 3 hours AFTER the cpanel update goes through.