/home/user/tmp/ directory using giant space

olijm74

• August 19, 2023 06:29

I have recieved a email from the host today that my plan is nearing 300,000 of max files. I checked my host after logging in and found that the /home/myusername/tmp/ folder has suddenly caused a gigantic amount of disk usage which I don't recall before. Compared to all my other directories in the File Manager, nothing compares to this folder and don't understand why it is so big all of a sudden? Why is it doing this? One file for example which is over 2GB is Cpanel_Form_file.upload.c3d4d20f. I don't know which files I can remove without causing issues on my server. There's lots of other files in 200MB+ size taking up a lot of the space as well in the text/x-generic type. Any assistance greatly appreciated,

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  cPRex Jurassic Moderator

  • August 21, 2023 16:30

  Hey there! The example you provided with the cpanel_Form_file.upload file is a temporary file that was uploaded through the cPanel >> File Manager tool and may have been stopped or failed before it was finished. You can remove all files in that tmp directory except for the following directories: drwx------. 21 username username 4.0K Oct 13 2022 analog drwx------. 3 username username 28K Aug 21 08:06 awstats drwxr-xr-x. 2 username username 4.0K Oct 8 2013 cpbandwidth drwx------. 2 username username 4.0K Sep 19 2022 horde drwxr-xr-x. 2 username username 4.0K Sep 6 2013 logaholic drwxr-xr-x. 3 username username 4.0K Oct 20 2013 pear drwxr-x---. 3 username username 4.0K Apr 28 2020 pma_template_compiles_username drwx------. 25 username username 12K Aug 21 08:06 webalizer drwx------. 2 username username 4.0K Feb 12 2022 webalizerftp

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  olijm74

  • August 22, 2023 08:52

  Hey there! The example you provided with the cpanel_Form_file.upload file is a temporary file that was uploaded through the cPanel >> File Manager tool and may have been stopped or failed before it was finished. You can remove all files in that tmp directory except for the following directories: drwx------. 21 username username 4.0K Oct 13 2022 analog drwx------. 3 username username 28K Aug 21 08:06 awstats drwxr-xr-x. 2 username username 4.0K Oct 8 2013 cpbandwidth drwx------. 2 username username 4.0K Sep 19 2022 horde drwxr-xr-x. 2 username username 4.0K Sep 6 2013 logaholic drwxr-xr-x. 3 username username 4.0K Oct 20 2013 pear drwxr-x---. 3 username username 4.0K Apr 28 2020 pma_template_compiles_username drwx------. 25 username username 12K Aug 21 08:06 webalizer drwx------. 2 username username 4.0K Feb 12 2022 webalizerftp

  
  Hey, thank you for the reply. Got it sorted, I appreciated the detailed info like what folders not to delete.

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