In cPanel, on the homepage , in the left-hand column, you will see a "Disk Space Usage" statistic. You will also notice an icon in cPanel called "disk usage viewer"
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This discrepancy exists because the disk usage viewer does not account for file system overhead ( inode and block sizes ). Your file system is formatted with 4k block sizes, which can add up on filesystems with a large number of files. The usage indicated on the main page in cPanel accounts for all usage in or outside of that user's home directory, and does account for filesystem overhead. The total for that usage is pulled from a quote report for that user. Unfortunately at this time there is no way to circumvent this behavior. However, I will make mention of this to or our developers, and see if we can offer an alternate solution, or possibly a more verbose description of what usage is summarized in the disk usage feature. |
What does this mean to you? it means basically the current disk usage view should be considered a "ballpark" estimate and is a good place to look for general ideas of where disk usage is being most consumed, and that the ACTUAL total disk usage being consumed by your account is listed on the cPanel main page.
With any luck we can get an improved disk usage viewer out of cPanel soon.
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