Inode usage of .cpanel under root

Sarath Kumar R

• March 01, 2017 11:50

Hi, Under root we can see .cpanel is taking huge inode space. Please let us know whether we can safely delete the same. Will it cause any issue.

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  cPanelMichael

  • March 01, 2017 17:05

  Hello, Here are some commands to see which directories in /root/.cpanel are utilizing the most inodes:
  cd /root/.cpanel echo "Inode usage for: $(pwd)" ; for d in `find -maxdepth 1 -type d |cut -d\/ -f2 |grep -xv . |sort`; do c=$(find $d |wc -l) ; printf "$c\t\t- $d\n" ; done ; printf "Total: \t\t$(find $(pwd) | wc -l)\n"
  If you see a directory with a high inode count, browse to it and run the same command again to see the results for the individual directory. This command is also helpful in some cases where the comet files in the /root partition utilize a large number of inodes:
  /usr/local/cpanel/bin/purge_dead_comet_files
  Thanks!

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  Sarath Kumar R

  • March 01, 2017 17:28

  Hello, Here are some commands to see which directories in /root/.cpanel are utilizing the most inodes:
  cd /root/.cpanel echo "Inode usage for: $(pwd)" ; for d in `find -maxdepth 1 -type d |cut -d\/ -f2 |grep -xv . |sort`; do c=$(find $d |wc -l) ; printf "$c\t\t- $d\n" ; done ; printf "Total: \t\t$(find $(pwd) | wc -l)\n"
  If you see a directory with a high inode count, browse to it and run the same command again to see the results for the individual directory. This command is also helpful in some cases where the comet files in the /root partition utilize a large number of inodes:
  /usr/local/cpanel/bin/purge_dead_comet_files
  Thanks!

  
  Can I remove .cpanel file from the server. Will it affect any cPanel service

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  cPanelMichael

  • March 01, 2017 17:34

  Can I remove .cpanel file from the server. Will it affect any cPanel service

  
  Hello, I don't recommend deleting the entire directory. Were you able to review the troubleshooting information from my previous response? Thank you.

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