cPanel User Manual 

Steps 

1

 To access the 

Disk Usage Viewer

, click on the 

 icon above the words 

Disk 

Usage

 on the main screen of your cPanel interface.  

To navigate to a directory, click on the name of that directory

To enable a display option, click on the box with the name of that option

Disk Usage Options: 

Show Parent Directories (Hide Parent Directories) 

This option will show (or hide) all top level directories in your site. When turned 

on, directories above public_html will be show. When turned off, only 

subdirectories will be shown.

Show More Directory Depth 

This option will show all the subdirectories of the currently listed directories.

Show Less Directory Depth 

This option will show all parent directories of the currently listed subdirectories.

Show Top Level 

This option will show all files and directories that exist in your home directory.

Clear File Usage Cache 

Hide Small Files (Show Small Files) 

This option will hide all files that do not take up a significant amount of disk 

space. (This can be very useful when trying to find only the files that are using a 

lot of space on your site). Enabling 

Show Small Files

 will go back to showing all 

files in the current directory, regardless of size. 

Show File Sizes as Bytes 

This option will show all files sizes in bytes instead of megabytes.

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