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var/tmp disk warning

Bashy
Hi folks I am getting
Notification Type: critical ? Server: **************** Primary IP Address: ***.***.***.*** Filesystem: /var/tmp Mount Point: /var/tmp Percent Used: 94.06% Disk Block Usage: Used: 43.01 GB Available: 2.87 GB Total: 48.32 GB ChkServd Version: 17.0
Disk usage as follows,
Current Disk Usage Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on rootfs 49G 39G 7.1G 85% / /dev/root 49G 39G 7.1G 85% / devtmpfs 7.9G 336K 7.9G 1% /dev /dev/sda3 1.8T 7.7G 1.7T 1% /home tmpfs 7.9G 0 7.9G 0% /dev/shm /dev/root 49G 39G 7.1G 85% /var/tmp /dev/root 49G 39G 7.1G 85% /home/virtfs/*******/bin devtmpfs 7.9G 336K 7.9G 1% /home/virtfs/*******/dev /dev/root 49G 39G 7.1G 85% /home/virtfs/*******/lib /dev/root 49G 39G 7.1G 85% /home/virtfs/*******/opt /dev/root 49G 39G 7.1G 85% /home/virtfs/*******/tmp /dev/root 49G 39G 7.1G 85% /home/virtfs/*******/usr /dev/root 49G 39G 7.1G 85% /home/virtfs/*******/var /dev/root 49G 39G 7.1G 85% /home/virtfs/*******/sbin /dev/root 49G 39G 7.1G 85% /home/virtfs/*******/lib64 /dev/root 49G 39G 7.1G 85% /home/virtfs/*******/var/log /dev/root 49G 39G 7.1G 85% /home/virtfs/*******/var/tmp /dev/root 49G 39G 7.1G 85% /home/virtfs/*******/etc/mail /dev/root 49G 39G 7.1G 85% /home/virtfs/*******/usr/sbin /dev/root 49G 39G 7.1G 85% /home/virtfs/*******/var/spool /dev/root 49G 39G 7.1G 85% /home/virtfs/*******/etc/pki/tls /dev/root 49G 39G 7.1G 85% /home/virtfs/*******/etc/alternatives /dev/root 49G 39G 7.1G 85% /home/virtfs/*******/var/cpanel/email_send_limits /dev/sda3 1.8T 7.7G 1.7T 1% /home/virtfs/*******/home/******* /dev/root 49G 39G 7.1G 85% /home/virtfs/*******/bin devtmpfs 7.9G 336K 7.9G 1% /home/virtfs/*******/dev /dev/root 49G 39G 7.1G 85% /home/virtfs/*******/lib /dev/root 49G 39G 7.1G 85% /home/virtfs/*******/opt /dev/root 49G 39G 7.1G 85% /home/virtfs/*******/tmp /dev/root 49G 39G 7.1G 85% /home/virtfs/*******/usr /dev/root 49G 39G 7.1G 85% /home/virtfs/*******/var /dev/root 49G 39G 7.1G 85% /home/virtfs/*******/sbin /dev/root 49G 39G 7.1G 85% /home/virtfs/*******/lib64 /dev/root 49G 39G 7.1G 85% /home/virtfs/*******/var/log /dev/root 49G 39G 7.1G 85% /home/virtfs/*******/var/tmp /dev/root 49G 39G 7.1G 85% /home/virtfs/*******/etc/mail /dev/root 49G 39G 7.1G 85% /home/virtfs/*******/usr/sbin /dev/root 49G 39G 7.1G 85% /home/virtfs/*******/var/spool /dev/root 49G 39G 7.1G 85% /home/virtfs/*******/etc/pki/tls /dev/root 49G 39G 7.1G 85% /home/virtfs/*******/etc/alternatives /dev/root 49G 39G 7.1G 85% /home/virtfs/*******/var/cpanel/email_send_limits /dev/sda3 1.8T 7.7G 1.7T 1% /home/virtfs/*******/home/******* /dev/root 49G 39G 7.1G 85% /home/virtfs/*******/var/cpanel/php/sessions /dev/root 49G 39G 7.1G 85% /home/virtfs/*******/var/cpanel/php/sessions
might be wrong but, i think those jailed accounts are the cause? So, whats the best way around this please? im gonna say probably increasing the size? If so, how please?

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  • 24x7server
    Hi, It cannot be the virtfs, the reason being it is on /home and it is s separate partition.. Try releasing the space from the unwanted log file. This should be sufficient if those tend to get heavy with disk space utilisation ..
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  • Bashy
    Hi, It cannot be the virtfs, the reason being it is on /home and it is s separate partition.. Try releasing the space from the unwanted log file. This should be sufficient if those tend to get heavy with disk space utilisation ..

    Ah, good point :rolleyes: Thanks for the advice, please could you explain how, sorry, although i have had a dedi for years, its rare i come across an issue but when i do, sadly i dont know enough to resolve it myself :confused:
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  • 24x7server
    Hi, Check the logs in the location: # cd /var/log/ && du -sch * # cd /usr/local/apache/logs && du -sch * # cd /usr/local/cpanel/logs && du -sch * You see the space it is utilizing...
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  • Bashy
    Ah, silly me, thanks, here is the ouptut, not a vast amount, under well under 2gb total munin @ 1.1gb is a large contender here.
    cd /var/log/ && du -sch * 3.9M archive 4.0K audit 1.9M bandwidth 0 boot.log 0 btmp 0 btmp-20170501 9.0M chkservd.log 492K clam-update.log 8.0K ConsoleKit 7.0M cpanel-install.log 3.4M cron 2.0M cron-20170423 2.0M cron-20170430 2.0M cron-20170507 2.0M cron-20170514 3.4M dcpumon 40K dmesg 40K dmesg.old 2.0M exim_mainlog 112K exim_mainlog-20170430.gz 112K exim_mainlog-20170507.gz 112K exim_mainlog-20170514.gz 104K exim_mainlog-20170521.gz 0 exim_paniclog 4.0K exim_paniclog-20170430.gz 4.0K exim_paniclog-20170507.gz 4.0K exim_paniclog-20170514.gz 4.0K exim_paniclog-20170521.gz 8.0K exim_rejectlog 4.0K exim_rejectlog-20170430.gz 4.0K exim_rejectlog-20170507.gz 4.0K exim_rejectlog-20170514.gz 4.0K exim_rejectlog-20170521.gz 52K lastlog 16K lfd.log 4.0K lfd.log-20170521.gz 8.1M maillog 4.7M maillog-20170423 4.7M maillog-20170430 4.7M maillog-20170507 4.7M maillog-20170514 1.1G munin 0 nscd.log 40K quota_enable.log 172K rkhunter.log 72K rkhunter.log.old 27M sa 8.0K secure 4.0K secure-20170423 4.0K secure-20170430 4.0K secure-20170507 4.0K secure-20170514 0 spooler 0 spooler-20170423 0 spooler-20170430 0 spooler-20170507 0 spooler-20170514 0 tallylog 124K wtmp 4.0K xferlog.offset 4.0K xferlog.offsetftpsep 16K yum.log 36K yum.log-20160101 16K yum.log-20170101 1.2G total

    cd /usr/local/apache/logs && du -sch * 95M access_log 136M archive 202M error_log 4.0K httpd.pid 4.0K modsec_audit 0 modsec_audit.log 0 modsec_debug_log 4.0K ssl_scache.dir 4.0K ssl_scache.pag 34M suexec_log 44K suphp_log 466M total

    cd /usr/local/cpanel/logs && du -sch * 45M access_log 0 api_tokens_log 4.0K backup_restore_manager_error_log 0 backup_restore_manager_log 188K build_locale_databases_log 708K cpbackup 128K cpbackup_transporter 12K cpbackup_transporter.log 8.0K cpdavd_error_log 24K cpdavd_session_log 2.7M cphulkd_errors.log 3.7M cphulkd.log 204K cpwrapd_log 312K dnsadmin_log 40K easy 16M error_log 0 incoming_http_requests.log 468K license_log 412K login_log 4.0K panic_log 4.0K php-fpm 844K queueprocd.log 720K safeapacherestart_log 252K session_log 79M spamd_error_log 188K stats_log 5.9M tailwatchd_log 368K update_analysis 156M total
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  • cPanelMichael
    Hello, The following document is useful when you need to determine what's taking up the space on your server: How to Manage your Hard Drive Space - cPanel Knowledge Base - cPanel Documentation Since /var/tmp is part of the root filesystem on your server, check to see what's taking up the most overall space in the "/" directory and below (outside of your /home partition). Thank you.
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  • Bashy
    HI, thanks, but i get this error
    root@ns362289 [~]# du -sh / du: cannot access `/proc/13981': No such file or directory du: cannot access `/proc/19477/task/19477/fd/4': No such file or directory du: cannot access `/proc/19477/task/19477/fdinfo/4': No such file or directory du: cannot access `/proc/19477/fd/4': No such file or directory du: cannot access `/proc/19477/fdinfo/4': No such file or directory 67G /
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  • cPanelMichael
    Hello, You can ignore those warning messages, and proceed to further examine the disk usage. EX:
    du -sh /*
    Thank you.
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  • Bashy
    Hello, You can ignore those warning messages, and proceed to further examine the disk usage. EX:
    du -sh /*
    Thank you.

    Thanks, heres the output
    root@ns362289 [~]# du -sh /* 34G /backup 8.1M /bin 12M /boot 336K /dev 180K /error_log 34M /etc 52G /home 5.1M /lib 28M /lib64 16K /lost+found 4.0K /media 4.0K /mnt 40M /opt du: cannot access `/proc/26450/task/26450/fd/4': No such file or directory du: cannot access `/proc/26450/task/26450/fdinfo/4': No such file or directory du: cannot access `/proc/26450/fd/4': No such file or directory du: cannot access `/proc/26450/fdinfo/4': No such file or directory 0 /proc 12K /quota.user 4.0K /razor-agent.log 35M /root 27M /sbin 0 /scripts 4.0K /selinux 4.0K /srv 0 /sys 3.1M /tmp 9.0G /usr 1.4G /var
    and now this... Sorry for the inconvenience! The filesystem mounted at / on this server is running out of disk space. cPanel operations have been temporarily suspended to prevent something bad from happening. Please ask your system admin to remove any files not in use on that partition. EDIT Looks like its the backups that are taking up the space, i had them at /backups/ so i deleted some of them and it let me back in to cpanel, I thought that having them there would have just used up what ever space that was free on the drive evidently not, so i have moved them to /home/backups/ in the hope that that will suffice.....
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  • cPanelMichael
    Hello, You may also want to consider storing backups on a remote server, or adding a new drive to the server for backup storage. Storing backups on the /home partition is discouraged and can prevent quotas from working properly. Thank you.
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  • Bashy
    Hi, sorry for the late reply.. It looks like i can only have it set to a remote server as a secondary backup place only not as a primary Adding a new disk is not an option :( Oh, wait, i have just had another look, please let me know if i go wrong here? 1). If i set backup DIR to /home/backup/ 2). Backup transfer to another server 3). Have Retain backups in the default backup directory. Would that still mess with the quotas? or do i need to put the backup back to /backup and have the backups removed after transfer? thus saving on that partition space?
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  • cPanelMichael
    It looks like i can only have it set to a remote server as a secondary backup place only not as a primary Adding a new disk is not an option

    You can uncheck "Retain backups in the default backup directory." and the backups will only remain stored on the remote destination.
    Oh, wait, i have just had another look, please let me know if i go wrong here? 1). If i set backup DIR to /home/backup/ 2). Backup transfer to another server 3). Have Retain backups in the default backup directory. Would that still mess with the quotas? or do i need to put the backup back to /backup and have the backups removed after transfer? thus saving on that partition space?

    I recommend choosing the local directory with the most disk space, and then disabling the "Retain backups in the default backup directory." option. This will help ensure the local backups are successfully generated before the archives are moved to the remote destination. Once the transfer to the remote destination completes, the backups are then removed from the local directory (e.g. /backup). Thank you.
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  • Bashy
    Thank you, all makes sense now :)
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