Installing cPanel with multiple user directories

Quintanilha-RJ

• March 04, 2025 07:37
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Hello everybody! I have a dedicated server with four SSD disks mounted as /home, /home2, /home3 and /home4, and I would like to install cPanel. My question is: will cPanel be able to use all these disks correctly to store accounts, even without RAID configuration?

 

Can I install cPanel to the /home disk as default on the server? Furthermore, cPanel will be able to use multiple disks mounted as /home, /home2, /home3 and /home4, even if they are on separate drives, without RAID to store data from customers' cpanel accounts.

If yes, how do I activate this setting?

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  cPRex Jurassic Moderator

  • March 04, 2025 15:01

  Hey there!  Yes, this is actually how cPanel is configured by default.  When you create a new account we automatically check for the area with the most disk space available and place the account in that partition.  As long as those partitions are properly setup in the OS there isn't anything you need to do in cPanel to use them.

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  Quintanilha-RJ

  • March 05, 2025 14:41
  • Edited

  So I can install cpanel on the server in a / (Slash) partition

  and there will still be 3 discs left

  /home1
  /home2
  /home3

  
  cpanel will use the 4 partitions to place data from cpanel accounts created in the whm panel, even if the disk is not in raid
   
  Partition/Main
  /home1 disk 1
  /home2 disk 2
  /home3 disk 3

  Can you confirm this for me?

  @cPRex

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  cPRex Jurassic Moderator

  • March 05, 2025 15:07

  Yes, that is exactly correct.

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