# Irrelevant “free” disk usage numbers

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/irrelevant-free-disk-usage-numbers/31940>\
**Category:** Feature\
**Created:** [August 10, 2015, 12:45am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/irrelevant-free-disk-usage-numbers/31940 "2015-08-10T00:45:19Z")\
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**Author:** ![johnmuhl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/johnmuhl/32/43413_2.png) [@johnmuhl](https://meta.discourse.org/u/johnmuhl)\
**Post date:** [August 10, 2015, 12:45am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/irrelevant-free-disk-usage-numbers/31940/1 "2015-08-10T00:45:19Z")

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If you have uploads and/or backups set to go to S3 the free disk space numbers on the admin dashboard are misleading.

![](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/3X/3/a/3a74a3877bbc3af7639f8f64605b117f92a84068.png)

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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