Hello, we're using cPanel with WHM and inside of our / we can see that the virtfs folder is taking up about 800Gb of space, this is abnormal, we've us

stefan88

• February 21, 2022 07:24

Hello, we're using cPanel with WHM and inside of our / we can see that the virtfs folder is taking up about 800Gb of space, this is abnormal, we've used du to check the space it is taking up, ignoring all the symlinks to /bin or /lib, it is still taking a lot of space since the /var does not have any symlinks and it is taking up ~40gb per account. What we have already tried: - Restarting the system - Running /scripts/clear_orphaned_virtfs_mounts according to the

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  andrew.n

  • February 21, 2022 14:30

  This should address your questions :)

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  quietFinn

  • February 21, 2022 15:00

  There is a file /home/0_README_BEFORE_DELETING_VIRTFS containing this: The /home/virtfs directory contains critical operating system files. If you remove /home/virtfs, or any directories under /home/virtfs, you will cause irreparable damage to your operating system. Do not remove /home/virtfs, or any directories under /home/virtfs, unless you have tested, up-to-date backups. You should ignore any disk usage warnings you receive that are associated with the /home/virtfs directory! For more information about the /home/virtfs directory, visit the documentation at https://go.cpanel.net/virtfsdoc
  

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  cPRex Jurassic Moderator

  • February 21, 2022 15:22

  It's important to note they aren't symlinks, but specific bind mounts. Thanks for the posts, guys!

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