# Irrelevant “free” disk usage numbers
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/irrelevant-free-disk-usage-numbers/31940
**Category:** Feature
**Created:** [10 באוגוסט, 2015, 12:45am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/irrelevant-free-disk-usage-numbers/31940 "2015-08-10T00:45:19Z")
**Posts on this page:** 8
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### Author:  [@johnmuhl](https://meta.discourse.org/u/johnmuhl)
#### Post date: [10 באוגוסט, 2015, 12:45am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/irrelevant-free-disk-usage-numbers/31940/1 "2015-08-10T00:45:19Z")
If you have uploads and/or backups set to go to S3 the free disk space numbers on the admin dashboard are misleading.
The `21.6 GB free` is the amount of free space on the server hosting Discourse not on the S3 bucket hosting the uploads and backups.
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### Author:  [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [10 באוגוסט, 2015, 1:27am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/irrelevant-free-disk-usage-numbers/31940/2 "2015-08-10T01:27:01Z")
Not a bug, that is how it is supposed to work.
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### Author:  [@johnmuhl](https://meta.discourse.org/u/johnmuhl)
#### Post date: [10 באוגוסט, 2015, 3:52am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/irrelevant-free-disk-usage-numbers/31940/3 "2015-08-10T03:52:26Z")
I see what you mean. So this is a feature request to have the free space available on the host displayed elsewhere or at least not displayed when using S3 backed storage.
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### Author:  [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)
#### Post date: [10 באוגוסט, 2015, 3:55am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/irrelevant-free-disk-usage-numbers/31940/4 "2015-08-10T03:55:25Z")
Space on host is critical I want that always displayed, if you reallly reallly really don’t want to show this, why not simply add a css rule?
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### Author:  [@johnmuhl](https://meta.discourse.org/u/johnmuhl)
#### Post date: [10 באוגוסט, 2015, 4:01am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/irrelevant-free-disk-usage-numbers/31940/5 "2015-08-10T04:01:11Z")
I’m happy to have the space available on the Discourse host displayed somewhere. I just don’t think next to the uploads and backups numbers is the appropriate place when the uploads and backups are stored on a host with essentially unlimited space. It makes it look like Amazon only has 21.6 GB of free space.
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### Author:  [@Mittineague](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Mittineague)
#### Post date: [10 באוגוסט, 2015, 5:05am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/irrelevant-free-disk-usage-numbers/31940/6 "2015-08-10T05:05:01Z")
Where would you put it?
Mockup?
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### Author:  [@cpradio](https://meta.discourse.org/u/cpradio)
#### Post date: [10 באוגוסט, 2015, 12:29pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/irrelevant-free-disk-usage-numbers/31940/7 "2015-08-10T12:29:03Z")
Maybe another column named “system”? with the space available listed next to it?
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### Author:  [@chapoi](https://meta.discourse.org/u/chapoi)
#### Post date: [4 בדצמבר, 2025, 11:36am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/irrelevant-free-disk-usage-numbers/31940/8 "2025-12-04T11:36:54Z")