Overview: How to Check the Disk Usage and the Bandwidth Usage of Directories
This guide explains How to Check the Disk Usage and the Bandwidth Usage of Directories step‑by‑step and why it matters for security, uptime, and performance. It’s written for small and medium businesses that rely on Blackhawk MSP for proactive, managed IT support in the Bay Area and beyond.
- ✅ Clear, actionable steps
- ✅ Best‑practice notes from our MSP engineers
- ✅ Links to related services and help
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If you are getting a disk space usage warning from cPanel and don't know which directory is using too much space, then this tutorial will be helpful for you.
1. Log in to your cPanel account.
2. In the Files section, click on Disk Usage.
3. From the Disk Space Usage area, you can see which directory is using a lot of space and check the disk usage of MySQL.
How to check the Bandwidth Usage?
1. In the Metrics section, click on Bandwidth. 
2. Here, you can check the bandwidth usage of your domain.
We hope this tutorial is helpful to you.
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