title: Where are my "storage PD capacity" charges coming from?
body: <p>I'm new to google cloud. I'm managing several users who are testing it out and I run the lab so have to figure out what it's costing us.</p>
  <p>I'm trying to understand where the charges come from. Here's current charge estimate:
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  <p>The bit that confuses me is the &quot;Storage PD capacity&quot; part. I get that this is 'Persistent Disk Storage' but I cannot see which VMs it is associated with. From the charge breakdown I can see that there is 481GB that we are being charged for. But here is the disk space associated with current compute engine instances:</p>
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  <p>So there is only one instance that has a disk allocated which even could contain 481 GB. But if I ssh into that and check how much disc space is used with <code>df -h</code> then it shows only 38 GB is being used:</p>
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  <p>So where is the 481 GB coming from? How do I figure this out?</p>
  <p>Many thanks for your answers!</p>