Server Using Too Much Disk Space

Server Config
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Though WHM says that all my cpanel accounts combined use about 100GB of disk space, my entire 250GB hard drive keeps filling up. Even after host clears stray log files, it only gets it back down to about 180GB. What the?

I think my automated backups to NAS have something to do with it. I can’t tell if the server is backing up to the NAS storage through a mapped folder as designated, or if it is backing up to the primary HD. When I go to Disk Space Usage in WHM, I see

//nas05.service.softlayer.com/SL5XXX-21  	226G  	225G  	0  	100%  	/backups
/dev/sda1 	99M 	17M 	78M 	18% 	/boot
/dev/sda2 	226G 	225G 	0 	100% 	/
/usr/tmpDSK 	485M 	12M 	449M 	3% 	/tmp

Now it shows my NAS storage as having same size/usage as primary HD. That cannot be correct. What is happening and how can I find out if the backups are going to the NAS and not sda2.

Ryan

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To see how much each directory under / is using do the following:

cd /
du -shc *

Note: This will likely take some time to complete and may drag down your system. The command goes through all of the files in your / partition and computes the sizes for each of the files and a total for each directory under /. From there you can determine where the bulk of your disk space is being used.