Evaluate Disk Usage on Linux Cpanel Server

The following commands will assist you in evaluating your disk usage on a Linux Server with Plesk.

• Get overview of available and used space

  df -h

  

  On this server the primary partition /dev/sda3 is using 37Gb out of the 56Gb allocation

• Get a break-down of each root level folders usage

  du -hs /*

  

• Show top 5 root level folders by disk usage

  du -sm /* | sort -rn | head -n 5

  

You will generally find a majority of disk space that can be freed up in logs.

• Find Cpanel Site Logs Over 10Mb

  find /home/*/access-logs/* -size +10M -exec ls -lh {} \; | awk '{print $5 , $9}'

  

• Delete Cpanel Site Logs Over 10Mb

  find /home/*/access-logs/* -size +10M -exec rm -f {} \;

• Find Apache Site Logs Over 10Mb

  find /usr/local/apache/domlogs/* -type f -size +10M -exec ls -lh {} \; | awk '{print $5 , $9}'

  

• Delete Apache Site Logs Over 10Mb

  find /usr/local/apache/domlogs/* -type f -size +10M -exec rm -f {} \;

• Find Server Logs Over 10Mb 

  find /var/log/* -size +10M -exec ls -lh {} \; | awk '{print $5 , $9}'

  

• Delete Server Logs Over 10Mb

  find /var/log/* -size +10M -exec rm -f {} \;

• Show disk usage for each site

  du -sm /home/* | sort -rn

  

• On this server we have managed to free just over 2Gb

  df -h