# Question about disk usage calculaton

**URL:** <https://forum.virtualmin.com/t/question-about-disk-usage-calculaton/113955>\
**Category:** Help! (Home for newbies)\
**Created:** [February 11, 2022, 11:00am UTC](https://forum.virtualmin.com/t/question-about-disk-usage-calculaton/113955 "2022-02-11T11:00:44Z")\
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**Author:** ![technicalw](https://cdn.forum.virtualmin.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/71e660/32.png) [@technicalw](https://forum.virtualmin.com/u/technicalw)\
**Post date:** [February 11, 2022, 11:00am UTC](https://forum.virtualmin.com/t/question-about-disk-usage-calculaton/113955/1 "2022-02-11T11:00:44Z")

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| 🛈 SYSTEM INFORMATION | |
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| OS type and version | Almalinux 8.5 |
| Virtualmin version | 6.17 |

I have a VPS with single user, I set the disk quota limit on 25GB.  
DU command (or ncdu) shows that user only use 5GB  
database disk usage using ncdu command shows that /var/lib/mysql use 1GB.

That means I can assume that user should only use 6GB. But it is showing over quota and unable to renew letsencrypt cert.

Now after I make it unlimited quota, it shows 22GB usage. How can I trace what is consuming disk quota for that user?

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**Author:** ![calport](https://cdn.forum.virtualmin.com/user_avatar/forum.virtualmin.com/calport/32/44_2.png) [@calport](https://forum.virtualmin.com/u/calport)\
**Post date:** [February 11, 2022, 11:10am UTC](https://forum.virtualmin.com/t/question-about-disk-usage-calculaton/113955/2 "2022-02-11T11:10:05Z")

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> [@technicalw](#):
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> How can I trace what is consuming disk quota for that user?

See [Email is full? Or the User is full?](https://forum.virtualmin.com/t/email-is-full-or-the-user-is-full/113709)

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**Author:** ![system](https://cdn.forum.virtualmin.com/uploads/default/original/2X/c/cd96d761e326db4b2bef94886a639109bd7a8e76.svg) [@system](https://forum.virtualmin.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [February 19, 2022, 11:10am UTC](https://forum.virtualmin.com/t/question-about-disk-usage-calculaton/113955/3 "2022-02-19T11:10:14Z")

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