Delete file from /home/virtfs/

Ben Taylor

• December 12, 2023 13:11

I have some Redis rdb files within /home/virtfs/account/var/lib/redis. I no longer use Redis and it is disabled. however I cannot delete these files because its a read only file system.

How do I go about this?

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  Andrew

  • December 12, 2023 13:23

  Those are only symlinks, not actual files, doesn't take space. If from WHM under CageFS option you update CageFS I believe they will disappear as long as the source folder (/var/lib/redis) is removed already.

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  Ben Taylor

  • December 12, 2023 13:39

  I was not able to find CageFS from WHM menu.

  Why does it report that the folder it taking up 10GB of files? Does it exist somewhere else?

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  Andrew

  • December 12, 2023 13:50

  I thought you have CloudLinux on the server. You can read more about it here:

  https://support.cpanel.net/hc/en-us/articles/360051460214--home-virtfs-is-using-up-large-amounts-of-disk-space#:~:text=VirtFS%20does%20not%20use%20any,is%20using%20up%20disk%20space.

  that should explain how it works exactly.

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  Ben Taylor

  • December 12, 2023 13:57

  Ah ha I see. I found the files in "/var/lib/redis" and was able to delete them.

  Thank you :)

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